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 third-year students just graduating. There have progressed steadily during the past eighteen been more places offered, with salaries sufficient to years. The number of students has risen live on, than there were graduates to take them." from one hundred and fifteen in the year The intellectual self-reliance and the spirit 1869-1 870 to two hundred and twenty-five of investigation which this new method of in in the year 1887-1888. The national — in deed the international — character of the struction engenders, have produced the "Har vard Law Review " and greatly developed the school has been fully maintained. Since the Club Courts. The " Harvard Law Review" is establishment of the three years' course ten a monthly journal of law, of the same general years ago, thirty-five States, two Territo ries, and the District

plan as the "American of Columbia, England Law Review," and is and four of her prov managed wholly by inces, Japan and the the students. It con Hawaiian Islands tains articles also by have been represent the professors and ed at the school. others, and is a mag azine of high order. The library now con The Club Courts, tains twenty-three which are practically thousand volumes, Moot Courts, con and is believed to be in some respects the ducted entirely by best equipped lawstudents, have far outstripped in useful library in America. ness the Moot Courts About $3,000 is spent held by the profes upon it annually. In 1 88 1 Mr. Edward sors. These clubs Austin gave the have generally two school over $ 140,000 sets of members, — for the erection of a the junior court con new building, — Aus sisting of eight mem tin Hall, — which it bers selected from the now occupies. In first-year class, and 1882 the school re the senior court con C. C. LANGDELL. sisting of nine mem ceived a gift of $90,bers selected from the 000 to endow a pro second-year class. The junior and the senior fessorship, and in the same year large gifts courts meet at regular intervals, and at each were made toward a library fund. sitting a case is argued by two of the mem The enthusiasm of the graduates of the bers as counsel, — the rest sitting as judges. school found expression, in 1886, on the In the junior court a member of the senior occasion of the celebration of the 250th an court sits as Chief Justice. The cases are niversary of the founding of Harvard College. regularly presented upon the pleadings; The Harvard Law School Association was briefs are prepared, arguments made, and organized, on Sept. 23, 1886, "to advance opinions — sometimes in writing — delivered the cause of legal education, to promote the by each of the judges. The cases are pre interests and increase the usefulness of the pared with quite as much thoroughness as Harvard Law School, and to promote mutual any work that is done at the school. acquaintance and good fellowship among the In material prosperity the school has also members of the Association." All former