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 The Albany Law School. Faculty and Trustees of the Albany Law School to take this important step without further delay. It is not intended, however, greatly to mitigate the severity of the courses of study, or so to alter their character as to lower in any degree either the quality of the students who will be attracted to the school or of their work within its walls. It is be lieved that two full years of hard work is not

too much time to de vote to the task of ac quiring such a knowl edge of the principles of law as every man should have who is, by virtue of his pro fession and title, sup posed to be " learned in the law." Accordingly, while the diploma and de gree of the school will be awarded only to those who have gone over the curriculum and stood the tests of a two years' course, the institution will extend welcoming arms to those who have only a single year to devote to a systematic study of law, with which to NATHANIEL supplement or give body and coherence to studies pursued elsewhere. To the law-clerk, serving the apprenticeship prescribed by the Court of Appeals of this State, it will still, as heretofore, afford the opportunity of a rapid and yet thorough survey of the field of law, such as no office study, no matter how judiciously directed and faithfully pur sued, has ever yet succeeded, or can ever succeed, in giving to the student. It will not be less true hereafter than it has been in the past, and I believe is now, that there is no other place in the world where an earnest and industrious young man can

learn so much law in a year as he can in Albany. The Albany Law School has sent out more than two thousand graduates, and probably nearly as many more have taken partial courses. It is impossible to point out all who have attained eminence at the bar, or in other pursuits; but on glancing over the list of alumni the following names strike me: Wheeler H. Peckham, and Everett P. Whee ler, of New York City; Esek Cowen, of Al bany, N. Y.; Harris W. Plaisted, Bangor, Me., ex-Governor; Abraham Lansing, Al bany, ex-State Senator and Supreme Court Reporter; Charles E. Fitch,Rochester,N.Y., editor of the " Demo crat and Chronicle," and a Regent of the State; William S. Opdyke, New York City; George L. Stedman, Albany; Stephen B. Griswold, Librarian of the Law Department of the State Library, Albany; Wheelock G. Veazey, Rutland, Vt., C. MOAK. Judge of the Ver mont Supreme Court; George M. Bliss, of New York City; William H. McElroy, of the " New York Tribune;" William P. Prentice, of New York City; J. Edward Simmons, ex-President of the Stock Exchange, and now serving his fifth term as president of the Board of Educa tion of New York City; James Lansing, of Troy, N. Y.; Amasa J. Parker, Jr., ex-State Senator; Daniel A. Dickenson, St. Paul, Minn., ex-Judge of the Supreme Court; Marcus T. Hun, Albany, Supreme Court Reporter; N. S. Gilson, Fond du Lac, exJudge of the Fourth Judicial District; D.