The Cornell University School of Law.

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THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW. By Professor Harry B. Hutchins. ' I "HE Cornell University but recently [ ample, and in many respects superior to ■*■ celebrated its twenty-first annual com that of any other in the country; and its mencement. Though among the youngest location, on highlands overlooking the of the higher institutions of learning in the beautiful waters of Cayuga Lake, is unsur country, it enjoys the distinction of being passed. The visitor at Cornell is at once among the largest. The University Register impressed with the fact that the little city for 1888- 1889 contains a Faculty roll of i of Ithaca is the home of a great university ninety-four, exclusive of officers whose duties and of a living educational power. But the are wholly administrative or clerical, and a title of Cornell to distinction does not rest student list numbering twelve hundred and upon the beauty of its surroundings or twenty-nine. The marked increase in attend upon its substantial halls and laboratories, ance, however, has taken place during the past not even upon the numbers that daily crowd four years. In that time the enrolment has its lecture-rooms, but rather upon the catholic more than doubled, and that, too, notwith spirit in which the institution was conceived standing the fact of a considerable increase and took form, and upon the liberal and en in the requirements for admission. The lightened policy that has thus far character material equipment of the University is ized its management.