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I stand for mercy for the living. Let the dead lie In peace. He ought've dodged, Or carried a gun himself, Then maybe I'd have given him a lift. Get busy—— Shoot, stab, kill; Jump on 'em, Boil your grandmother in oil, Tear your wife's eyes out, Strangle your children, Smash your best friend, Turn the old world inside out;

Count on me, Ever your friend. Reasonable Doubt.

"Your methods," said the indignant oﬁ cial, "were simply highway robbery." "Again you wrong me," answered the importer. "They were low-weigh robbneliiy." —Ohio State four . A certain prominent English jurist was transferred from the chancery court to the admiralty court rather unexpectedly. While conversant with English law to a rising degree, this gentleman had spent little time in marine law, and was rather dubious as to

his ability to cope with the duties of his new oﬂice. His colleagues, in recognition of the occa sion, gave him a dinner, after which he was

called upon for an address. He made a long and serious speech, which embraced about everything from free trade to England's for eign policy. Then, pausing a moment, he glanced round the crowded room and said: "Gentlemen, in closing, I can think of no

EDGAR WHITE. Macon, Mo.

better words than the lines of Tennyson :— "‘And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.’" — Youth’: Companion.

The Editor wtll be glad to "uivo for the‘: department anything likely to entertain the under: of the Gran Bag tn the may of legal antiquities. faun'a, and anecdotes.

Correspondence To the Editor of the Green Bag:— Sir: In your issue of January in an article, “The Bar and the Young Man," by Shearon Bonner. Esq., in the ﬁfth paragraph, the following statement appears:—- ' “As a preliminary warning, let me advise you not to put very much faith in correspond

edge that I was rather skeptical in enroll ing, but have discovered that they, at least mine, have compelled me to toe the mark in all of their work. The papers have been examined and commented upon and errors pointed out with explanations and proper citations. My further experience was that in one examination, where my average was 64}, I was compelled to take another ex amination upon a re-review of the subject.

ence schools.

I am inclined to believe that

The average for each subject is 70, and there

these schools depend for their success on a new crop of young men each year, rather than on any reputation they have made for eﬂiciency and straightforwardness. I be lieve that the law can be successfully taught by correspondence; but whether or not it is now being done by any person or school is a diﬁerent question." I beg to state that, in answer to the ﬁrst sentence of this quotation, quite a number of the correspondence law schools are doing good work in imparting legal knowledge to students. Speaking from experience, I would state that I have had work with one of these Corre spondence Law Schools, and I must acknowl

was nothing to have prevented this school from passing me on this subject and I never would have known the diﬁerence. I am glad to read of some one of the pro fession who is a member of a Law School faculty who is broad-minded enough to feel that the law can be properly taught by corre spondence, for here in Philadelphia the entire profession hold up their hands in “Holy Horror" to even think of such a thing, alone to study in this fashion. Our Board of Examiners almost think it a crime. I trust that there will be some more liberal~ mindedness on the part of the profession. E. M. W. A. G. Philadelphia, Pa., jan. 20, 1910.

THE TEACHING OF LAW IN CORRE SPONDENCE

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