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144 Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Acadenr»ic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 2.50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER. Editorial Board. Hugh W. Odgen, Editor-in-Chief. Justin D. Bowfrsock, Treasurer, Charles L. Barlow, Edward K. Hall, Douglas Campbell, James P. Hall, Edward R. Coffin, Logan Hay, Robert Cushman, Archibald C. Matteson, David A. Ellis, Charles B. Sears, Louis A. Frothingham, Henry Ware. Albert K. Gerald, The Langdell Number of the Review is an expression of the debt owed to Professor Langdell by his colleagues ; the meeting of the Har- vard Law School Association this June will be an expression of the debt owed to him by the graduates of the School, and, from the presence of the distinguished orator of that occasion, of the debt owed by all law and lawyers. It may not be amiss to complete the record by saying something of the special debt owed to him by the students in the School. It is not easy for a man who has studied here even for a little while to be ignorant that the unexampled means of study which lie ready at his hand are not matters of course. It is worth each man's while to remember now in the time of his present enjoyment that all these things are owed directly or indirectly to the Dean and to his twenty-five years of hard work ; his has been the moving hand, his the responsibility, and to him credit is due. This is an occasion when the present students may recog- nize their obligation for all these causes which have made it such a very pleasant and profitable labor to be a student in the School. The Editors of the Review speak confidently for all in expressing the grati- tude which the students in the School feel for all the great things which they enjoy because Dean Langdell has done his work so well. By a clerical error it was stated in the May number of the Review that the celebration of the Harvard Law School Association would occur on June 28. This should have been June 25, the day before Commence- ment, which comes this year on June 26. The Presumption of Innocence. — In a criminal case, recently before the United States Supreme Court, a refusal to charge that innocence is pre- sumed till guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt was held erroneous, notwithstanding that the court charged fully and accurately that the burden was on the prosecution to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Coffin