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 Law School of the University of Minnesota. be considered during the two years, at such times and in connection with the treatment of such general subjects, as shall be most advantageous and convenient for students and instructors.

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ing and enthusiasm in the branches which they respectively teach, and to equip the institution with all that the exacting de mands of the profession can make upon it. Much is said in these days about meth ods of instruction. It is clear enough to METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. attorneys who have admitted students to

The method of instruction is not confined their offices for the purposes of study, that to either lectures or recitations; but such a very little time can be found by the practi combination of both tioner to devote to is adopted as is best those under his tui tion; and in a large calculated to interest the student and se majority of cases the cure for him a thor student degenerates ough, accurate, and into a mere clerk, and comprehensive knowl often into a mere er edge of the princi rand-boy to do the ples and rules of chores and the run law. And in addi ning of the office. tion thereto, such a The one thing needful use of the reports is the student does not made as will famil possess, and can never iarize the student with thoroughly acquire in the leading cases upon the average office, — the various subjects discipline of mind. in which he receives And a systematic knowledge of the law instruction. does not come by The subject of In chance, nor by easy ternational Law is as and unregulated ef signed to ex-Senator forts. The distrac S.J. R. McMillan; but tions of a busy office owing to business en are utterly incompati gagements he has been C D. O'BRIEN. ble with the quiet re unable to deliver the quired for study and course during the year, and his place has been supplied by W. W. contemplation on the part of the student; Folwell, Professor of Political Science and and the quiet of an empty office is equally Literature in the University, who has given incompatible with legal enthusiasm on the a thorough, interesting, and able course of part of the practitioner. The busy office lectures upon that subject to the present distracts the pupil; the empty office dis Senior class.. tracts the teacher. Constitutional History has also been very The most that the pupil can acquire un clearly presented to the students by H. P. der such conditions is a fragmentary, dis Judson, Professor of History in the Univer jointed, and confused collection of legal sity, who is a most efficient and interesting conceptions, unless he is one of those rare and exceptional persons whose mind con lecturer. It has been the aim of the Regents to quers all difficulties by the sheer strength bring to the Law Department men of learn- of its endowments.