University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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look for from the Turk than from the Christian, and what would call for the aid of the sword in its promulgation, rather than the doctrine of peace and good will. lt is true that the crusade is not ristian faith, but it is wholly directed at those who profess the Ch none the less detestable for that reason, our protest is against the chain with which it is proposed to bind the conscience, and the manner in which we would impose, at the opening of the twentieth century, restrictions upon the liberty we made so broad and invited hare with us when we first laid the foundation of the the world to s national life. The simplicity of childhood Professor Campbell retained in great measure to the last. He loved to witness and enjoy the sports of children, his fireside was the point to attraction, and his most agreeable companions were those whom for nurture and support. He which he felt most the Heavenly Father had given him counted upon the coming of the holidays, Christmas was always ff Merrie Christmas to him, he loved as the year rolled around to elebration of the nation's birthday, for to him niiicance to all the world, but he cared nothing for the processions,. parades, etc., He' was always awake to .mat- ' ' dthou h ters of public interest, but as a patriot, not as a partisan, an g he had never studied the legal system of any other country as he studied the common law of England, he had a general knowledge of they' civil law that enabled' him to appreciate its merits and on of such features as we have very slowly but very usefully been appropriating from the wisdom of those to whom the world is indebted for it. participatein the c it had deep sig assist in an intelligent applicati Blessed be his memory. . THOMAS M. COOLEY.

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Cho Law School of o-aav: Its work and 'functions .. ' ' ' ' ' -DO 'NOT KNOXVQ' says Mr. Bryce in his great 'ni I i book on The American Commonwealth, ffif there is anything in which America has advanced more 4 beyond the mother country than in the 'provision she makes for legal education. Twenty-five years ago, when there was nothing that could be called a scientific school of law in England, .... many American universities possessed well-equipped law departments, giving highly efficient instruction. Even-now, when England has bestirred her- self to make a more adequate provision for the professional training of both barristers and solicitors, this provision seems insignificant beside that which we find in the United States,'where, not -to speak of minor institutions, all the leadingpuniversities possess law schools, in each of which every branch of Anglo-American law, i. e., common law and equity as modified by Federal and 'State constitutions and statutes, is taught by a strong staff of able men, sometimes includ- ing the most eminent lawyers of the States . . .. ,. No one is obliged to attend these coursesiin order to obtain admission to practice, .... but the instruction is found so valuable, so helpful for professional success, that young men throng the lecture halls, willingly spending two or three years in the scientific study of the law, which they might have spent in the chambers of a practicing lawyer as pupils or as junior partners. This is the testi- mony of a most careful and conscientious observer and student of our institutions. It would be but reasonable to conclude that the profession generally in the United States must have been, from the Hrst, enthusiastic advocates and supporters of a system of legal education that could commend itself so favorably to this distin- Q