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another year to limit degrees to those who professions demand the best preparation to have attended two years, unless, indeed, as be had, and that the neglect of the advan seems likely, the number of applicants for tages of a college education, where it is at tainable, is an indication of indifference not senior standing on office reading shall be come so small that a strict rule may not be promising well for future success. But to say to a young man to whom a college necessary. education is an impossibility, that he cannot As the school year is longer in this insti tution than in perhaps any other, it will not therefore be a successful lawyer, is to fly be necessary to consider a longer course for in the face of experience. A considerable amount of mental train the present.

ing is essential to the The question as to effective study of law, what preparation shall but this may be ac be required for admis quired otherwise than sion to the Law School in college. What is involves the same dif needed is not so much ficulties as that with learning as discipline, regard to length of and this may have re course. It is highly sulted from other forms desirable to have men of mental activity. But with a good educa with the increased fa tion; if they have had cilities for a college the discipline of a education it is becom full college course, so ing true that the best much the better. But the school should not equipped men are usu make requirements ally college graduates, and, without any re which cannot be met quirement on the part by those upon whom of the schools, it will it is dependent for doubtless soon be a support. Indeed the fact, in the West, as it question is not merely one of support, but, already is in the East, aside from that, it is that the great body of GEORGE G. WRIGHT whether the school those who apply to would be doing the them for admission most possible toward forwarding the object will come with a college degree. of its creation, if it should limit its advan It is not to be understood that the advan tages to a few, by requiring conditions which tages of the Law Department are limited to the body of those desiring to study law can men. The University of Iowa from the first not comply with. A strict entrance exam has admitted to all its Departments women ination will keep away men who would make on equal footing with men, obeying in this good lawyers, indeed who will make good the growing sentiment for equality which lawyers by other modes of preparation. has abolished distinctions between the sexes The suggestion is sometimes made that as to property rights, and has admitted wo eventually a college course should be made men to practise at the bar. No objection a necessary qualification for admission to a whatever has appeared to the admission of professional school. Of course it cannot be women to the Department; they have made too strongly insisted upon that the learned excellent students. But there seem to be