The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-25

cured in any school in the country.
The Hammond attorneys who have
been acquainted with the plans Of the
faculty of the new school and with the
faculty members themselves have well
coined them into the community and
are encouraging them in their under
taking in every possible manner.
The cores pondence school feature Is
also an important one.
One distinguished writer on the sub
ject says: "A correspondence law
school that is conscientiously and sin
cerely conducted will always recon-
mend that its students go to resident
schools if they can; for II must be
recognized that the resident law
schools offer many advantages that
correspondence schools cannot give.
The atmosphere of the classroom. the
association with students pursuing the
same line of work. and to a more or
less extent with the professor also.
has a tendency to produce the best re-
suits in the earnest student in a resi-
dent school. On the other hand, so far
as mere thoroughness is concerned, a
correspondence school need yield
nothing to the resident school, pro-
vided the school Is earnestly and sin
self earnestly and sincerely desires to
learn and will do his part a stu
dent. This is proved by the results at
tanned by the graduates Of correspond
ence schools at State Bar Examina-
lions, and for that matter. in the prac-
ttce of the profession. That fact, how
ever. is quite as much a tribute to the
student as the correspondence school,
If not more so; for no man can go
through a correspondence course unless
he earnestly desires to learn, and when
he does go through such q course, and
completes it, it is certain that he has
learned at least large a percentage
of the subjects covered as the aver
age graduate of the resident law school
purusing the same course. The resi-
dent school, OF course, offers the fullest
opportunities for learning, if the stu
dent attending VIII do his part. 1t
offers possibly fuller opportunities than
a correspondence school can offer
though in making that statement I
admit hold some mental reservations,
and in no statement in this article 90
l speak merely from theory, because
I have had experience as a student in
two of the best university law schools,
and also fifteen years experience in
correspondence instruction since al
mission to the bar. I repeat therefore.
that while the correspondence school
should not and does not seek to take
the place of the resident school. in has
an important place all its own. 1t
should not be regarded by the resident
law schools as a rival. nor should 1t
be opposed by them. They should en-
courage it, If their faculty are in the
broadcast sense public educators, in
stead Of simply ambitious advocates of
their own institution and of Their own
method. Knowing all of the advant-
ages and values of the resident school,
having seen them and participated in
them as a student, and knowing the
advantages and values on the one hand.
and, on the other, the weakness and
deficiencies of the correspondence
school, having seen them and taken
pare in them as an instructor, I think
I may claim for the correspondence
school. in the field that it seeks to
occupy, a position of the very highest
service and value to tho public"