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sist, wherein its potency lies, it may be of situation afford a most attractive site somewhat difficult to explain. Its ultimate for a great and powerful institution of analysis might disappoint us. Yet there is learning. There are already over one thousand stu a transcendent power possessed by an an cient institution. Extensive libraries, works dents enjoying the varied advantages which of art, the accumulations of generations, all its different departments, including law and suffused with the spirit of generous men, medicine, afford; and each year brings with whose benefactions endowed, whose labors it increased numbers of students and en upbuilt, and whose wisdom directed their larged facilities for instruction.

Provision was made development, give to in the charter of the them a charm that University for the younger institutions do not possess. establishment, at the But when we turn proper time, of a col our eyes to the West lege of law; and in ern States, we behold the early part of 1888 colleges and univer the Regents, believ sities which seem to ing the proper time have sprung into ex had arrived, estab istence by some magic lished the department influence. In the ex by electing a Dean, tent of their buildings and providing a full and appointments corps of lecturers, generally, in the num selected from among ber of their students, the ablest attorneys in the vigor of their of the Minnesota management, and in Bar. the thoroughness and The College was inspiration of their formally opened on instruction, they dem the 1 ith day of Sep onstrate their power tember, 1888, with an to meet the demands address by the Dean, of a vigorous and before the Regents CYRUS NORTHROP. earnest people, whose and members of the civilization and cul department, upon the ture are but those of the East planted upon " Science of Jurisprudence," accompanied the broad prairies of the West, though in by a statement of the general policy that tensified and broadened by the active and would be pursued in the upbuilding of that liberal spirit incident to a new country. branch of the institution. Among those educational powers which From this it is seen that our history as are producing a marked effect upon West a Law School is yet to be made. We ern civilization, is the University of Min cannot recount great works of the past; nesota, — a State institution endowed by give biographies of renowned personages the General Government, generously sup whose legal writings have blessed the ported by the State, located near the Falls whole continent; enumerate among our of St. Anthony upon a tract of nearly forty- alumni distinguished statesmen, lawyers, five acres in extent, whose native trees and and legal students whose wisdom has undulating surface and natural advantages guided our national development, adorned