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and in proportion as it has been adopted have these schools grown and flourished and struck their roots deep into productive soil. So overwhelming was this victory

of the Harvard College law school that other schools have imitated even the very weaknesses and peculiarities of the Harvard system of instruction. Indeed I was told of a

case in which the professor in a certain law school quite distant from Harvard had even imitated the very tones and inflections of the Harvard law school professors because they thought that was a part of the course. Today a first-class law school can be built up entirely away from the great centers of population - entirely away from centers of courts and legal business. You only need men for the faculty, and the library for the students, in order to develop a law school of the very finest quality, even in the remote district of Podunk. Something of the same thing has happened in the medical schools. It was supposed at one time that the

best way to study medicine was to get the practical work in a doctor*s. office and then go up to the city and attend the clinics and see the physicians at their work. The

argument was that the only place to get this medical work was in a great center of papulation; and of course there is much Justification in that argument, owing to the fact that the material for laboratory work is more abundant in the city than in the country.