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 The Legal World The methods of conducting bar ex aminations in New York have been a reproach to that state and a distinct detriment to sound legal education for years, according to Harlan F. Stone, dean of the Columbia Law School in his annual report to the President, in which he says: "The practice of the bar examiners of asking questions based exclusively and minutely on statutes or decided cases and of judging the answer on the basis of their 'correct ness,' places a premium upon memoriza tion by the candidate, and affords no adequate test of his ability to reason in a legal way, or to apply his knowledge to a new state of facts, which are, after all, the essential qualifications of the lawyer. The law schools are devoting themselves to the development of these qualities in the law student, and it seems particularly unfortunate that no substantial effort is being made by the bar examiners to test the efficiency of the candidates for admission along these lines." The Chicago Bar Association has elected the following officers: President, Alfred M. Allen; vice-presidents, John Galvin, George Hoadly, Robert Ramsey, Alfred C. Cassatt and Walter A. De camp; recording secretary, Ben B. Nel son; corresponding secretary, Stanley W. Merrell; treasurer, William G. Hosea. Bar Associations

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Missouri. — The thirtieth annual meeting of the Missouri Bar Association was held at St. Louis, on September 26-8. Morton Jourdan of St. Louis delivered the President's address, and the annual address was given by Hamp ton L. Carson, former Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, on "The Historic Re lation of the Judiciary to Unconstitu tional Legislation." Other speakers and their topics were as follows: Albert W. Biggs, "The Unrest as to the Admin istration of Law"; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Harvard University, "Social Justice and Legal Justice"; Dr. William M. Thorton, University of Virginia, "Who Was Thomas Jefferson?" At the annual banquet Governor Herbert S. Hadley spoke on "Progressive Jurisprudence," and Judge R. M. Wanamaker of Akron, Ohio, delivered an address on "The Recall of Judges." Virginia. — At the annual meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, held at Old Point Comfort, Va., on August 6-8, the president's address was deliv ered by J. F. Bullitt of Big Stone Gap and the principal address was made by Judge Martin, A. Knapp of the United States Court of Commerce, on "Trans portation and Commerce." The follow ing officers were elected: president, Professor William Minor Lile of the University of Virginia; vice-presidents, Judge T. P. Griffin, Bedford City; R. R. Prentis, Suffolk; John T. Harris, Harrisonburg; John W. Price, Bristol, and A. W. Wallace, Fredericksburg; secre tary and treasurer, John B. Minor of Richmond.

Massachusetts. — The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Association will be held in Springfield, Thursday and Friday, December 19 and 20. On Obituary Thursday afternoon a portrait of exCarrington, Brigadier-General Henry Chief Justice Knowlton will be hung in the Springfield court house, when Beebe, who died in Hyde Park, Mass., Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of on Oct. 26, was an amanuensis for Wash Harvard College, will deliver an address. ington Irving, under whose advice he