The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-21
USES OF LEGAL HISTORY
ORPE'S AD-
 DRESS BEFORE BAR ASSOCIATION.


 J. Randolph Tucker Speaks on the "Best Training for the American Bar of the Future'-Other Pertinent Subjects Ably Dealt With by Eminent Members of the Bar-The Session of the Association an Unparalleled Success-Thousands Attend the cises-Distinguished English Jurist Accorded Splendid Reception. Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 20.-The session of the legal education section of the American Bar association this after
 noon was well attended The first pa- per was by J. Randolph Tucker of Washington and Lee university, on Best Training for the American Bar of the Future"
 He maintained: "First--That the lawyer as minister at the altar of justice of the ideal Jus, through the actual Lex. must be trained to believe his employment is a public duty, pri- marily to God and his country; not a mere vocation for private wealth or honor; and that his functions as law yer of judge are to be performed for the promotion of truth and right and for the defeat of falsehood and wrong. This is the primal lesson.
 "Second-The lawyer should have lib- eral culture. Is there anything in phi losophy or science, in history or litera- ture he should not know, in order to reach the summit of his noble vocation? "Third-As law is an historic science, because ever law system has had his
 toric development, the student must
 be taught and should learn the history
 of legal science; from its ancient land
 marks, along the pathway of its pro- gress to present conditions. He should
 be taught to learn comparative juris- prudence, thus broadening his views of his own by comparison with others, and avoiding the narrowness and error which comes from a too exclusive con- sideration of his own local poltty. 'Fourth-Constltutio law is there
 fore a special theme for the lawyer of the United States, for on the integrity and supremacy of these constitutions over men and states, and governments.
 state and federal, depend the perpetu lty of our union, and the security of | our liberties as men"
 How shall he be taught?
 We must teach him to teach himself. Professor James Colby of Dartmouth
 spoke on 'The Collegiate Study of the Law"
 In the absence of George H. Emmett | of Johns Hopkins university, who had
 prepared q paper on Legal Education
 in England" the paper was read by
 Judge Edwin B. Gager of Yale Law school.
 At the conclusion of the reading Mon tague Crackanthorpe of England. a | member of the English Council of I,e- | gal Education, stated that he regretted that Professor Emmett was not pres ent, as he would have been glad to meet him. lie said the English council had done much to perfect a higher standing in the education of English lawyers. At present the University of London was only an examining body, but a movement had been set on foot which would doubtless result in London hay ing university of it's own with teach CTS. He looked forward to the time when the Council of Legal Education would become practically the faculty in that university. He expressed his admiration for the excellent law schools existing in the United States and said that England was far behind America in this respect
 Sir Frank Lockwood of England com plimented Professor Emmett's paper
 Relative to legal education, he said that
 heavy responsibility rested upon the inns of court who have at their dispos- al large incomes, which, he thought, should be devoted in larger part to the
 development of legal education.
 Attorney General Harmon also spoke
 and favored a higher education for stu
 dents applying for admission to the
 bar, to the end that the standard of
 excellence might be raised Henry Hitchcock of St Louis, A. c,
 Fox of New York George Warrele of
 Chicago, H. c. Ingersoll of Tennessee,
 Professor Sharpe of Baltimore and oths
 CTS also took rart in the debate.
 A resolution was adopted providing
 that the section should recommend a.
 certain standard to be followed by law
 schools, and that such schools as failed
 to come up to the requirement so rec
 commended should be discountenanced.
 The section, after electing Edward J.
 Phelps of Vermont chairman and Pro-
 lessor C. M. Sharpe of Baltimore sec
 retary for the year, adjourned.
 The fact that Montague Crackan-
 thorpe was to read paper on "The
 uses of legal history" was sufficient
 to bring out large crowd at the even ing session of the bar association. MT. Crackanthorpe was accorded a gener- uos ovation when he was introduced by
 President Moorfield Storey of Boston,
 His address was frequently punctuated with applause.
 MT. Craclkanthorpe began his address by paying a strong compliment to the standard of legal education in the Unit ed States, of which he said: Your standard of legal education is a very high one, higher, indeed, than it is in my own country. If I am not misin- some 75 law schools, of which 65 are as- sociated with universities. The reputa- ton of at least one of these, the Har- ward Law school, has long attracted the attention of Europe.
 ''In London, although it is the capi- tai of an empire and a central seat of justice, no such advantages are to be had. We have, indeed, council of le- gal education chosen by the four inns of court, which is doing its very best. I speak from personal knowledge, since