The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-15
Woman Wins Place Al The State Bar
Miss FOote, Just Admitted, Young and Pretty-Four
 BridgepOrterS in List

You might go a long way to find a woman more modest and unassum- ing than Miss Mary Selina Foote, of New Haven, who has just passed the bar examinations for admission to practice law in this state, the third woman in the state to receive the honor.
 Miss Foote isn't an avowed suffrag- cite, either, although she says if women can practice law, can become physicians and ministers, she does not see why they couldn't vote. She isn't whom you conjure in your mind as going to Hartford. and demanding the right to pass the examination. In fact, she is most gentle and low-voic- ed, quite the opposite of what one expects of a woman who has the te- merity to want to practice before the four years old. At present she will continue her work in the law offices of .Arvine and Woodruff in the Elm City.
 Asked if she would advise any wo- man to take up the same course, Miss Foote said she would if the person was willing to work hard and really liked the work. She further said:
 T had to study at night and some | times I got a chance to. study be- tween times in the office. The first could do much of the work in the office. but the second and third years
 
 any work except by systematized study. When I went to MT. Hartman of the Yale Law school, to ask him to study under him he laughed at me, and said, So you want to study law? So you want to study law? We'll. don't see why you can't He seem would give the same advice to any young woman. desiring to study as MT. Hartman gave me-, I guess she can. if she wants to very badly.
 ''When I took the examination at Hartford, Judge Prentice was most kind to me. No one seemed to take dinary. The second days examina- ton. I think. was the more difficult, especially the. three exams on. con-
 While Miss Foote studied under At orney Hartman, of the Law. school. she was registered. with At sary before she could take the bar examinations as every candidate must have studied or be registered in a lawyers office three years before the examina tions.
 Miss Foote is a graduate of the tGuilford High school. class of 1904, Deacon John Rossiter. of Guilford, and niece of former superintendent of Schools, John Rossiter, of Boston, she fss5er oGTH Sen in NC Iffs TGnH Foote. of that town. Her mother was Miss Doris Rossiter Of sGuilford. for I many years Q lGaC4SE III InaI IOWn- 1 She now lives with her mother in | Edgewood avenue
 The other women members of the lConnecticut- bar are Miss Mary Hall l of Hartford the noted settlement worker of that city, and Miss Susan | O'NeiI of Waterbury, who is part of | the firm of which her father and brother, lawyers, too, are the senior | members.
 The other applicants who passed 1 the bar examinations were: Norman Is. Buckingham, Milford; Charles J. Donahue, New Haven; Clark T.. Dur ant. Hartford: Robert R. Ferrett, Bridgeport; George N. Finklestone, Bridgeport; upon arrival at~age;4 Wall l ter F. Foley. Bridgeport; Mary Selina Foote, New Haven; David B. Glanz. East Hartford; S. E. Hannestead, New Haven; Frank E. Howarth, Putnam; Henry H. Hunt Glastcn- bury; Joseph I. Koppleman, Hartford; Charles F. Mcclure, Stamford; Sam uel Mellitz Bridgeport, upon arrival at age; Timothy F. O'Connen, New l Haven.
 l Law students who passed the liter ary examination are: Eugene Brim- | mer, South Norwalk; George L. Haw- ley, Bridgeport: Irving G. Smith | Wallingford; Wallace F. NolImer, l Bridgeport.