Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
FLEDGELING SOLONS
Nineteen Aspirants for Allegheny
Bar Examined.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES REQUISITE
The Civil Service Formula Was Not q
Marker to the Questions.
IRREGULAR LATIN VERBS TO PARSE

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The preliminary examination of law STU
dents for the Allegheny County Bar took
place last night in the Office of Hon. Walter
! Lyon, United States District Attorney.
The subjects for examination, as published
by the Associated Bar, are as follows:-
Elements of Latin, Histories of United
States and England. English Literature,
Logic, Rhetoric, Natural Science, and
Mathematics. A sound education in the
English language was also mentioned as a
requisite.
With regard to the Rhetoric advertised.
the examining attorneys explained that it
consisted of theories only. There were 10
being young colored man, who lately
graduated at the Pittsburg High School,
taking first honors on all subjects. The
daily press was represented by three can
didates.
The fedgeling Dracos lounged nervously
in the outer office, until summoned one by
one into the mysterious arcana behind the
folding doors, where the all powerful
examiners were enthroned. Suaye Assistant
Attorney Alcorn fitted hither and thither
between the two rooms; now bringing
comfort to those who
AWAITED THEIR FATE
without; now nerying the unfortunate who
suffered the pitiless rain of questions, to
greater constancy of purpose by his reassur-
ing smile.
The examiners-three in number, sat like
the three celestial judges Of the ancients;
and looked SO severe that one was forced to
think it impossible that they could ever
have passed preliminary" themselves.
They looked more as if they had been
lawyers from their birth.
One by one the students fled in. Some
fdgeted nervously while under fire, others
carried themselves with jaunty, selfsatis-
fed air; others again stood the test with en-
tire unconcern, appearing to regard the
whole affair as tiresome duty which had to
be got through with somehow. Some of the
candidates went to grass on absurdly easy
questions
The questions covered a remarkably wide
field, and to have answered them all would
require good general knowledge. One youth
was asked if he had read United States his
tory. He replied, tive read the history of
the world, and guess the United States
comes in somewhere" In Latin the exami-
nation consisted of sight translation from an
easy book of fables, and some
RATHER STIFF QUESTIONS
anent the conjugation OF irregular verbs. One
student who made q really good showing,
and who had a fair knowledge of Latin, had
the misfortune to be asked to parse a chance
sentence in which there were five verbs-all
irregular.
As each youth returned from the dread in
QUESTION chamber he was surrounded BY an
eager group and made to recount his expert
ences. Bits of general information were
banded to and fro, and pencils and note
books were thick as leaves in Vallambrosa."
One gentleman who had planted one foot
inside the awful door, turued and rushed
back to his friends, exclaiming: "Qulck,
boys, tell me who wrote the Tale OF Tub"
The examination began at 7:35 P. M. and
lasted until close upon midnight. The re-
suits will not be known until this afternoon.
The examiners were Attorneys Scott, AL
corn and McF. Carpenter. The number
of applicants for examination was the
largest in four years. F' 'a-.als'l