he librarians, which is fitted up with
open fireplace, desks, and other suitable furnishings. The whole floor
is finished in white-wood. On the third floor are two recitation rooms,
with a seating capacity of eighty and fifty, respectively. Above are
three club-rooms, devoted to the use of the several law clubs in the
school. With such accommodations the school will receive a new impetus.

The cause of legal education has advanced greatly within the memory of
lawyers who are even now hardly of middle age. Twenty years ago law
schools in this country were few in number and most of them poor in
equipment. No examination, and but little study, was required as a
condition for the degree of Bachelor of Laws; one of the oldest schools
conferred the degree upon all students registered therein for a certain
length of time,--one year. To-day, in most of the schools, students are
required to study at least two years, and to pass examinations in some
ten or twelve branches of the law before a degree is given. Some schools
require three years' study, and of these this school is one. Indeed, it
was the first to establish such a course, the trustees including it in
the statutes of organization in 1871. Transition from the earlier
standards to the present one has been gradual but steady, and to-day the
degree is conferred (save in exceptional cases) only upon those who have
studied law at least three years.

One or two features of the course of instruction deserve especial
mention. The first of these is the prominence given to the system of
recitations, and their separation from the lectures. These latter are
given by the elder members of the profession; the lecturer himself
occupies most of the hour in laying down and explaining propositions of
law and citing authorities in support. The lecturer's work is
supplemented by the instructors, who conduct recitations upon the topics
already reviewed by their elders; in these exercises the students are
expected and required to occupy most of the time in asking or answering
questions, and in the discussion and argument of points raised or
suggested in the previous lecture.

The freedom of debate and liberty of criticism given at the recitations,
larger than it is practicable to obtain at the lectures, is found to be
a most useful method of fixing principles or correcting errors.

The Moot Courts are another prominent feature of the instruction. These
are held regularly every Saturday. Som