The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15
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No was not ambit;ous during the first two
veora because his intellectual o1icIknees
ENABLED him N taLs an average nIaoe in
the rant list easiIv and left him time for
racreat;op
He stood high boNever during the re-
r,aipdar oT bia COLLAGE COURSE JIDon leav-
mo- AnUTnnln IN n h00nn To AluInU law AHnOIUn
mot ~ voars of 400 The court rulea would
NOT allow bis admission 10 praotioe until
he attained his majority. and he occnpied
.he Intervening time in haunting the court
rooms of -Cumbarland oountv observin1
che msthods of the dia,i n y,,is,ed and ah.a
members of that bar among whom his
father was a loader. He anplied himself
among other things IN acouirin9 a conn
mard of corract and vi1orons English
u,,itod 10 the ,,Iain mon who made I'M New
Englard ;,,rias and with this obiect in
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domestic trada Tho lavyvara thara cop-
stituted a distinguished bar. comprising
Samuel Fessenden. Simon Greenleaf whose
treatise on the law OF evidence il well