The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-28
UNIVERSITY MEMS IDEAS
Conditions Have Changed
Since the Political Arrange
ment of Century Ago.
NEW LAWS AND OLD JUSTICE.
Members Of the American Bar As
ISOLATION Heard Some Interest
ing Arguments.

DETROIT, MICH, Aug. 27.-The section
of legal education of the American Bar
Association met this afternoon. The
meeting was opened by the chairman, Pro-
lessor James Bradley T. Hayer of Harvard
University, who delivered an address on
the study of law at universities.
He said it had been stated lately that
every generation had a right to make its
own laws, to the end that the living should
not be governed by the dead. There is
suggestion of truth in this paradox.
"When we established our new political
arrangement hundred years ago." said
he, 1--WE made new branch OF constitu-
tional law, and the modern introduction
of steam engines, the application of cleo
tricity and the thousand inventions and
corporate associations of the age present
new problems in law which the new gen.
Grafton should settle in their own way.
But although new laws are made, law Is
not new. Justice and the notion of what
is reasonable and conventional is old and
stable, and the new law turns out to be
only the application to new situations of
these old conceptions. The legal task of
every generation is the same-to see that
justice has its course"
In conclusion the professor said: "If,
then, we of the American bar would have
our law hold its place among the great
objects Of human study and contempla-
ton; if we would breed lawyers well
grounded in what is fundamental in its
learning and its principles, competent to
handle it with the courage that springs
from assured knowledge and inspired with
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degree insensible to worldly ambitions and
emoluments, who are rather filled with a
wholesome and eager desire for them, but
whose minds have been lifted and steadied
and whose ambitions purged by knowl
edge of the great past of their professions,
of the secular processes and struggles by
which it has been, is now, and ever will be
struggling toward justice and emerging
into better conformity to the actual
wants of mankind, then we must deal with
it at our universities and our higher
schools, as all other sciences and all other
great and difficult subjects are dealt with
as thoroughly and with no less expendi-
ture of time and money and effort"
Professor E. w. Huffcut of Cornell Uni
versity followed with paper on 1.-THE Re-
lation of the Law School to the Univer-
sity." He cited findings to show that a
man who is a graduate of college or uni
versity is better equipped than the person
who has not undergone such training.
The professor said that the study of law was
put on the same basis as any other study
in one of the California universities, and
at the end of four years the student is
graduated as bachelor of arts of law.
He thought there should be real and viz
tual connection between the university and
the law school.
Tonight at the Y. M. G. A. Hall the
Michigan and Detroit members rendered
formal welcome to the visitors. In the
absence of President G. V. Lothrop, ex-
Minister to Russia, who is in feeble health,
Hon. Don M. Dickinson made the address
Of welcome.
After the adjournment of the Michigan
and Detroit bar tonight the members of
the American Bar Association attended
an informal reception given to Justices
Brown and Brewer of the Supreme Court
of the United States and James G. Carter,
president of the American Bar Asso-
citation, at the residence of General r. A.
Alger.