The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-07-08
The Law Department OF the
South Carolina College.

In addition to the regular lectures by
the professors OF law OF the South Car
olina College, the trustees and faculty
are pleased to be able to announce for
the coming session a very attractive
series of lectures to be contributed by
some Of the leading members OF the
Bench and Bar OF South Carolina.
AmCng those who have consented to
deliver one or more lectures TO the law
classes of the College are: Hon. Charles
H. SimOnton, L. s. Circuit Judge; Hon.
William II. Brawley, L. S. District
Judge; Hon. Y. ]. Pope, Chief Justice
of South Carolina: Hon. 9. a. Woods,
Associate Justice; Hon. Eugene B.
Gary, Associate Justice: Hon. Edward
hcCrady, Hon. j. &. Sheppard, Hon.
G.. duncan I5cllnger, Hon. =. j. Simp-
son, Hon. j. II. Carey, and Hon. Andrew
Crawford.
The trustees and faculty feel that in
securing the assistance of these dis
tinGuishcd Judges and lawyers they
have accomplished something that VIII
prove of the greatest benefit to those
taking the law course in the South
Carolina College. The number of those
enrolled In the law department during
the last two years has been the largest
In the history Of the college, and the
hope Is entertained that the prospect
Of these additional lectures may still
further Increase the growing number
OF law students.
The great value of the training af-
forded by schools of law has been too
thoroughly demonstrated to render
necessary any arguments in their sup
port. The day Of preparation for the
bar by solitary study in n lawyers
ONCE has practically passed. Everyone
familiar with the working OF a law
school must have been impressed with
the Increased interest and zeal that re-
SIit from the mere association of young
men who have come together for the
common purpose of studying law. The
daily discussions OF questions of law,
not only with the professors, but also
with each other. hcget an enthusiasm
for the law which possibly in some in
stances could never have been acquired
otherwise.
The advantage OF attending q profess
Sionai school in the State in which a
man IL TO practice his profession is In
no case more obvious than in that OF q
lawyer Besides the Familiarity gained
with the decisions and statute law OF
the state, Tire friendships that he forms
Ht such school add very materially to
his future usefulness as II citizen. The
career of lawyers as n class is more apt
to be of n public nature than that of
those engaged in any other profession
or business. Not only are al Of the
judges or the State drawn from the bar,
nut the occupants OF the legislative and
executive Offices are also drawn very
largely from the same source AS so
MANY OF the members Of the legal pro-
fession are naturally destined to public
ca%cera. 1t is OF no little Importance
that the young men who have decided
70 become lawyers should come into
close fouCrJwith other young men Of
theiraown State who have chosen the
SameDIe-wprk.
srhe most lasting friendships are not
tnfrequently formed during the part Of
atuanns NE that Is usually devoted to
peparauon Tor the bar: and il liz un-
fortunate ic this period should be spent
fnNttatc other than that in which he
asao nVe. Several years, spent at a pro-
teasion school in another State Some
nmes1nd tne student so completely out
or touch with the young men of his
own state that when ne returns to
practice his profession he finds hirnself
Iabofing under n serious DISADVANTAGE,
which in some instances Is never over
come.
A law. school, however, shoula he
patronized not alone by those intending
TO pTac1rce law. There is hardly a cali
ing m2Ife Tor which one would not be
better prepared by having taken a
has made an earnest study OF the law
Will agree with Burke that 1t is q
I6ffnce Which does more to quicken
ana invfSorate the understanding than
all othcr kinds of human learning put
together" The hope is INDUCED. there
fore, fhat the attendance upon The law
School OF the South Carolina College
laytanelude some WHO have not de-
tcfuADcd to make lawIfheir profession.
tCGurnbla as the capital OF the State
presents many advantages for the law
student. The sessions of the Supreme
Court of he 16tate, OF the state Circuit
courts. and OF the FEEDER al. Courts. give
him frequent oppoxf unity to hear arru-
meuts by the leading lawyers OF the
State. and to witness the practical ad-
minisfraton of the principles of the
aw. In prose cnfing his tsfndfsssfet twiN
nlsD hid that 7Taving access9fo {F1ei law
hbrary.,of the Supr che sCDtrt Las well
as,So the 5Colieges1ikrnry,vW vWHI be of the
yrcatesf S-Iiuk TO ftin1:'i - -