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separately from other candidates in one or more of the following books: — Homer, —: Book I. of Iliad. Lucian (Charon, Life or Dream of Lucian and Timon). The Odes of Horace. Mathematics or Metaphysics — at the option of the candidate, according to the following courses, respectively : — Mathematics, — Euclid, Books I., II., III., IV., and VI.; or Legendre's Ge'ometrie, Books I., II., III., and IV. Hinds' Algebra, — to the end of Simultaneous Equations. Herschell's Astronomy, Chapters I., III., IV., and V. Ancient and Modern Geography and History, — such works as the Candidate may have read. Candidates for admission to the Senior class were to be examined in the same books and subjects as for the University, and candi dates for the Junior class in the following subjects : — Horace, — Books I. and III. of the Odes. Mathematics, — Euclid, Books I., II., and III.; or Legendre's Geometrie by Davies, Books I. and III. with problems. English History and Modern Geography, — such works as the student may have read. The curriculum of 1859 was somewhat lib eralized in 1875. that year the Benchers in Convocation came to the conclusion that university graduates should not be subject to any preliminary examination. It was therefore resolved " that graduates in the faculty of arts in any university of Her Majesty's dominions should be entitled to be admitted a student of the laws upon giving six weeks' notice, paying the prescribed fees, and presenting to Convocation his diploma or a paper certificate of his having received his degree. All other candidates to pass a satisfactory examination in the following subjects : — Horace, — Book III. of the Odes. Virgil's /Rneid, Book VI.

Caesar's Commentaries, Books V. and VI. Cicero, — Pro Milone. Mathematics. Arithmetic. Euclid, Books I., II., and III. Algebra to end of Quadratic Equations. English History. Outlines of Modern Geography. English Grammar and Composition." The students who had entered the Law Society under this curriculum having a fair chance and no favor, were able to make their way with such means of instruction in the law as they had in 1859. The Benchers and Governors of the Law Society, however, conscious of the duty imposed upon them by the original constitution of the Society, were anxious to afford the students still better opportunities for advancement. It was not, however, till some years after this that a Bencher more advanced than others in his conception of what a true legal edu cation ought to be, took it in hand to ac celerate the wheels of progress, and urge the establishment of a Law School within the precincts of Osgoode Hall (Toronto), the seat of the courts and the home of the Benchers, the rendezvous of students and of those who had taken their degree of Barris ters. The Bencher to whom I refer was the late Thomas Moss, Q. C, afterward Chief-Justice of Ontario. He was a most distinguished graduate of the University of Toronto, and at one time Vice-Chancellor of the University. He could not see why a student of law should not be afforded as much opportunity of obtaining a good edu cation in the law as students of the Uni versity had for obtaining the best education in the arts and sciences. The late John Hillyard Cameron, Q. C, was in 1873 the Treasurer of the Law Society — which of fice, it may be explained, is that of President of the Convocation of Benchers — and Chan cellor of Trinity College. He was fully in accord with Mr. Moss in his opinion of what was due to the students in the matter of legal education. To these two gentlemen