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 more enthusiastically done. The lectures place; and a feeling that the best system delivered in that little country town by Mr. embraced lectures in connection with the Reeve and Mr. Gould, especially those of the practical work of an office resulted. The latter, gave the school a national reputation. long hours of weary office work, unrelieved The lectures of Mr. Gould upon Pleading by advice or assistance, through which so were subsequently published, and for a logical many students formerly plodded are now and clear treatment of the subject for stu brightened by healthful suggestions of the dents constitute the best book upon the lecturer which systematize and digest the subject ever written; the treatise is one of knowledge obtained by the individual work

the classics of the of the student. But law. The Law School a theoretical knowl of Boston University edge of law obtained does not owe its origin from school and text either to a prevailing book work alone desire to add new leaves a young man departments to the at his graduation with University without no accurate practi reference to the state cal knowledge, and of professional life at throws him helpless the time, or, upon the among his elder broth other hand, to any one ers. This same evil man devoted to the result has been for a theory of the law and long time recognized possessed with an in the medical pro ardent desire to im fession, and has been part a knowledge of remedied largely by its technicalities to opening to students young men. The in that profession the school was the legiti privileges of clinics, mate result of con hospital practice, and ditions which existed charity work, so that in Boston and its vi a young physician cinity eighteen years starts in life with ago. For many years some practical quali FRANCIS WHARTON. Boston had been the fication for his work. commercial centre of At the time the BosNew England, and, as a consequence, was I ton Law School was established it was a fact becoming more and more with each year that many students who would have liked to the centre of litigation and legal life. attend some law school were deterred from so With the growth of population there had doing by the fact that it rendered office work been a corresponding increase of lawyers impracticable and did not supply the place and students. It has long been a settled of such office experience. It was further felt rule in legal education that a thorough and that the instruction at the nearest law school, systematic knowledge of the law can best be namely, at Cambridge, was particularly tech obtained by attendance upon lectures, but in nical and historical, and when completed ne the adoption of that principle and in dis cessitated an apprenticeship in some good couraging office study alone, the profession attorney's office. In this situation, with went too far, and a necessary reaction took young men at the very door of the Univer-