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 Examinations for the Bar. The state of things at the present writing, then, seems to be this: That the pool, the first of these forms, is certainly bad; that the single corporation, the fourth form, is almost as certainly good; while the trust, the second form, is probably bad, which involves the holding corporation, the third form. From step to step in this succession there is a movement toward integration. Now that the end of that evolution has been reached in the single corporation, the law against combinations in restraint of trade may at last cease to operate. It has done a good work in forcing those who wish to bring together various corporations into greater enterprises to organize in an open manner under the general corporation laws. Then at last the State may impose such special regulation upon these industrial trusti as the situation requires. VI. This industrial reorganization during the

last decade may be set down as marking the most important epoch in the economic his tory of the United States. When the recent movement is so described, it is recognized that it has come about from the combination of various smaller units into larger units. Such consolidation in the face of an adverse policy which made against all restriction of competition has been at times an almost des perate forward movement. That there is so much accomplished fact in consolidation to show despite this law against combination in restraint of trade is proof positive that there have been two opinions upon the social advantage of such concentration all the time, hich has been the cause of this weakness. Upon the whole, however, the law against the combination stands unaltered, but it is overreached by the law in favor of the cor poration.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE BAR.1 BY HONORABLE LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR., Of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Bar. IT is to be regretted that Professor Williston, to whom the committee originally assigned the task of preparing a paper on this important subject, is prevented from keeping his appointment- lie would doubt less have laid before you a comprehensive review of the progress of the movement to raise the standard for admission to the bar, and of its present state in various parts of the union, supplemented by reflections and suggestions which would have been of value to those interested in the subject, either as judges, legislators or bar examiners. I have not engaged with the committee to supply "An address before the American Bar Association at Hot Springs, Virginia, August 27, 1903.

ihe place of such a paper, but only to pre vent an absolute gap in the program by pre senting briefly some considerations, which may serve to open the discussion. I am obliged to draw upon a rather limited ex perience gathered through a short service as bar examiner in Ohio, and as a member of a committee of the bar which assisted the Supreme Court of our State to frame the rules and regulations for admission to the bar which were adopted in 1897. I may say that on paper our regulations in Ohio are ideal. Admission to the bar is placed where it should be, in the hands of the Supreme Court, under a statute which provides for an examination, and that the candidate must