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out the lawyer's offioe and copying legal documents. But when Harvard College, a generation ago, adopted an entirely new plan which involved giving the student all the work he oould possibly do while in actual attendance at his law school, so that, even if he had a hundred courts, he couldn't attend them and at the same time do his college work; and when it demanded of the faculty that they should be law school teachers, first of all, a i not law practitionrd ers, and then gave these men so much to do in the work of teaching that they had no time for practice - - I say when these things were done (although at that time the law professor prophecied a complete failure and a fiasco) the real beginning of professional education in the field of law had been made. The Harvard College law school is located in Cambridge. THat is a large city, it is true, but I will venture to say that neither Harvard College professors nor Harvard College students are to be found in any considerable numbers attending any court in the city of Boston. Why? Because they can use their time for the purpose of getting the advantages of a professional education to a far better purpose during the years which they give to law school study. So complete and overwhelming was the victory of the Harvard system that we find now all over the country law schools in connection with the great universities in which the principle of the Harvard school has been adopted,
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