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the bar, and enriched the libraries of legal What has been done in the past is only a beginning of what is to be accomplished learning. The interest that attaches to our legal in the future. The newer schools of the institution is that which always invests West spring into vigorous activity, draw auspicious beginnings, — unusual develop ing to themselves large numbers of earnest ment, and unmistakable promise of future and vigorous youth, furnishing able and devoted instructors; and already a work of possibilities.

The readers of the series of articles upon enlightenment and inspiration has begun the various Law Schools of our country, within them whose influence upon the pres ent and future gener now being published ations cannot be cal in the " Green Bag," culated nor overesti recognize, with pecu mated. liar pleasure, the great Among these cen benefits accruing to tres of power and legal our country through these forces in our civ enlightenment, and ilization. They have one of the very young est, is the Law School been not. only agen of the University of cies for disseminating Minnesota, which al legal knowledge; but ready has a magnifi within their walls, from vigorous minds cent building, excel lent library facilities, and devoted spirits and devoted instruc have come also, in tors, sufficient to meet many cases, the re the most exacting de nowned and extensive mands of the State works whose influ and territory adjacent ence on the nation thereto. Sixty-seven and its institutions is students registered in invaluable. the department the No work has been first year. These done more silently and were young gentle with less display than GORDON E. COLE. men of zeal and prom that accomplished at ise. Graduates from Harvard, Yale, Al bany, Ann Arbor, and all the other legal Yale, Princeton, Wisconsin University, and institutions of our land, during the last other higher institutions of learning were generation or more. The greatest forces among their number. The earnestness with which they devoted are the most silent. The effects of legal themselves as a class to the work laid out learning are too deep for public observa tion. The populace will never duly value for their accomplishment, was rewarded by the efforts and influence of the bar, and a marked degree of advancement. The the bar itself is slow to estimate properly Dean devoted his entire time to instruc the work of the laborious Kents and Storys tion, and the various lecturers filled their and Washburns and Marshalls and Cooleys, appointments as the demands of the course for our new and formative civilization, for required. Rooms were occupied during the the rights, the happiness, and the prosperity year in the main University building; but the larger number of students anticipated of the American people. 27