Arizona republican., 1906-11-25

lone or more law books: and very
 likely has been a leader among his fel-
 lows at mock trials and debates on complicated subjects. No boy ever
 made a successful lawyer who did not
 early show tine characteristics which
 go to make the successful attorney at
 law. IL Is useless to say that boy
 may be restraining these characteris-
 tics. and that one can not accurately
 tell whether or not he is predestined
 for tue great profession. It may be 1 true in few cases. but the exceptions
 are too few to be worthy of any con- Boys. do not become poor lawyers.
 Better be fair or good at almost any
 thing else. If you are bar-bent, some
 body, besides yourself. will have ob-
 served the curve of your destiny. If
 you think you want to be lawyer,
 first find out whether or not you really
 want to become lawyer: and when you have decided that question in the affirmative. examine yourself. and let others examine you. Look into your self with your whole mind and your
 whole soul; probe yourself to your very depths; hunt with the micro scope of all your acuteness for the characteristics which point law-ward. and ask others to discover what you are good for: talk with lawyers and other clear headed and able advisers. and ask their advice. IT you and your parents are in favor Of Your entertain ing the law, and other persons who are of fair discriminating capacity are op- posed to it, advise you to consider for many days before you plunge into l pool which Is moro likely to drown you than to float you.
 A very large proportion of our young; attorneys-at-law,a and those who began to practice at the bar within twenty years. are graduates of law schools. Many of our older lawyers read law In law offices and neither attended nor graduated from a law school. This so-called law-ofiice education prevails | today but to much less extent than in the past.
 A classical college education can not be considered essential, but it is to be most strongly advised. The graduate ! of a college has great advantage over |, the man whose school education is l limited. The discipline of college work. l and the environment of college life, | irrespective of what the college ac- | tually teaches. are of fundamental ad- | vantage to the would-be lawyer. Even | if 1t could be truthfully said that the | classical college teaches nothing. and | that the graduate of the college ob- 1. tained nothing so far as mere learn | ing is concerned. I would enthusiastic Il ally recommend a college education 4 to anyone who intends to enter the legal profession. The associations be- gun at college will be of ever-present value to him. I don't mean to say that the lack of a college education prejudices his legal success. The right kind of boy will become a successful lawyer with or without a college edu- cation. The college. however helps. and helps nightly. I would. therefore. advise anyone who intends to become a lawyer to enter classical college and graduate from 1t. even at great per sonal sacrifice. I would recommend ! the law-schoOl. as the well-equipped law school is in every respect better than reading law in a lawyers office. many of our most eminent attorneys did not graduate from law schools.