New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-17
STIrDYLNG EOR TILE BHR.

D. W. b. writes that he means To study Ih", anu
that professional friends in Pennsylvania advise his
studying in that State on account of her adherence
TO common law" while New-Yorkers recommend
New.York He asks cosmopolitan advice" from
THE TRIBUNE. No doubt several hundreds Of
voung men completing college courses this summer
are weighing like questions Law-unlike divinity
medicine and engineering-is largely local; and the
choice of a place of study is grayey important
We Judge that whose purpose is fixed to settle
and practice in Pennsylvania should by all means
study in that State. More than other States,
PENNSYLVANIA has Jurisprudence of her own Its
foundations were laid deep and strong in the very
birth-time of the Republic she has chung to her
tradltons through all recent years she has had IN
dipenous statutes and decisions which her jurists
have deemed adequate for general wants and more
satisfactory than ideas of foreign growth; she has
taken little note of the experiments and lnnoya-
tions made in States around her; and the result Is
a system of law needing special study. n young
man very well equipped for commencing practice
elsewhere would fnd, on entering Pennsylvania,that
he had much to learn and not little TO unlearn De-
fore he could safely begin.
One, however, whose plan of residence is I'M
formed-who will settle he does not know where
will find in New-York State, probably in New-York
CITY. the best opportunities Of study. The State
has been the seed bed and nursery of the chief re-
forms in modern American law. Her code OF
procedure has been adopted in its prin-
cipes and substance in fully half of the States
Missouri Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Minnesota Kansas, Nebraska. Nevada. Cali
fornia Oregon Mississippi North Carolina south
Carolina Arkansas Colorado and Connecticut ana
in nearly all the Territories. Her newly enacted
Code of Criminal Procedure and Penal Code bid
fair to exercise like influence over criminal leglSa
ton in the newer States. The decisions OF her
courts of last resort on questions of personal rights
real property contracts and commercial law rank
high as authority in other States, and are eagerly
studied especially in those which have not
yet a large body of reports homegrown.
The chances are strong that lawyer
wandering Westward who should ask, wherever he
might be- Which of the other States has most III
| 1ucnced and moulded the law of this T. would DO
| told "New-YOrk" Ncw-York is the natural and
proper place in which to study those IDEAS and
! methods which she has so widely disseminated.
! Not only 80 but diploma and letters OF recon-
mendation which attest that graduate has faith
| fully and thoroughly studied in NewYock, have u
| prestige and value wherever the influence OF the
| State is felt.
| It ought to be known by all who bordering
| this general question that the Court OF Appeals
have very lately revised the rules governing adnls
sion to the bar They have abolished the dlstlnc-
| tIon-always disagreeable to students-between
attorneys and counscllors; and three years study
| now entities one to examination for admission to
| both grades at once. An allowance of one year Is
made to graduates of college; and an examination
| in common school branches ia prescribed for those
who have not taken a college course. Any student
| attending a law school, as provided by the rules,
who during the vacations of such school, not ex-
ceeding three months in year. studies in the office
of an attorney, may count such vacation-time as
part of his cerkship These are the changes the
studies required and the division of time between
law school and Office remain rs under the previous
| rule