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LAW DEPARTMENT BUILDING.

LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. By William S. Pattee. THE men of the West, especially those of New England extraction, cherish a just and abiding pride in the educational institutions of the eastern portion of our country. Those institutions possess a weight and dignity which age and its varied asso ciations alone can give. Hovering around the ancient halls, and filling the groves and walks of these sacred homes of learning, abides a spirit that Americans do not meet with elsewhere. As centuries have filled the Old World with institutions now hoary with age, whose antique appointments and solemn spirit of

antiquity charm the thoughtful visitor from the New World, so the history of Harvard and Yale and of the other earlier institutions of our country invests them, in the eyes of the newer West, with a peculiar inter est, and imparts to them a noticeable and acknowledged prestige and power. With their history is associated the names of our country's greatest statesmen and lawyers. The destiny of the nation has been largely mapped out and guided by the minds trained to think and inspired to action under the power of their invigorating influence. Of what this admitted prestige may con