The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-25

ology, strongly urging at least a trial at the law.
 During his vacation in lS20 Theodore took up Blackstone and he enum- eINted the authors he had read in the space of few months--Blackston Vattel. Pufendorf Grotius, Chitty's Laws of War Relative To Commerce" Smiths wealth of Nations" Hamilton's Reports" The Federalst," "Gilbert's Law of Evidence" Wilson's Lectures on Law" and the Essay on the Sinking Fund" list to "stagger the law stu dent of f0day, but having perhaps q bear ing on Woolsey's later writings"
 .In November 1920, he went to Princeton to carry out his cherished plan of theolos-. ical study but "with rather heavy heart" At the seminary Hebrew espo- cially attracted him. In one of his let ters horne he says: "In Greek our course
 is shameful enough, for we only recite one chapter a week, and few gst their les- sons very well. Anything like eXegesis or exposition is almost unknown" He wrote freely as to his religious condi- tion. T think" as he said. through the blessing of God, my mind has been more free from temptation to sin and have enjoyed religion more since l havo been here than ever before did. Late fly I have had much distress in review ing my motives and desires. How littls
 do I find at such times that can he ap- proved and how little that discovers any trust of the soul upon God. l am thank | full for this season of doubt for IL has l taught me to look less at actual onIis- sions of sin (so to speal<l and more at desires of holiness and purity"
 From the sketch here are extracts that will surprise many. A seminary friend writes as follows regarding Princeton college and it's new president. Dr. Carnahan: "He Is a man who, think, in his manners will please the students, and from his general charac- ter we may hope for brighter days for Nassau hall For six months or year past. the college has been without discl- pline and almost without government. Thrre Is at rpesent more dissipation and concealed depravity than has existed as I think, in Yale for ten years. Nor do I think 1t saving too much when ! assert that ne-half of the students will drink to intoxication whenever they can get an opportunity" Az to Harvard, for purposes of comparison, 1t may bc interesting to quote here from a letter written some l s months later by Mfr. Tyler: Here you observe but little of that daring impiety and wickedness which appears in the conduct of the ir religious in our orthodox schools. They do not break out in acts of violence. nor in deeds of madness, merely because they would be thought bravos in sir. [. They are, however deplora b1v deficient here Tn their morals they are perhaps nearly on a par with the members of Yale. Thex have no reli- gious character. . Many of the dheologicaD students are following the round of all decent dissipation. Some of them to my personal knowledge ~era in the habit of using prnfane language but snort time before they commenced the study of divinity The standard of attainment. particularly in writing is lower than at Yale. The government of the college grows worse as l fear is the case at New Haven"
 The biographical sketch will be con tinued in the next number of the Re view.