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 Correspondence proper legal questions, as also constitutional There seem to be but two practical objec tions. It would make the courses optional, and would affect seriously the standard of broad literary training, so essential to a fully equipped lawyer. Or if this course be sub stituted, the college graduate would have to do a double amount of Latin, which again might be a burden through stress of circumstances.

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Still, I am sure that there are many students for whom (as in the case now under my care) such a course under pressure of scant means and lack of previous training would make the best, if not the only way to promptly utilize the acquisition of a competent mastery of Latin for all future forensic and legal pur poses. (Rev.) A. A. BENTON. Foxburg, Pa., Mar. 20, 1909.

HIS INDEPENDENCE DAY MASTER BILLY TAFT.—"They said I shouldn't be able to get along without my^Teddy Bear—but I'll show 'em! "—Reproduced from PUNCH, with acknowledgments.