The Washington herald., 1922-02-23
NOTED
OPEN CONFERENCE
IN CAPITAL TODAY
Delegates of Bar Associa'
tiOns to Discuss Re-
quirements.

The midwinter session of the Ma
tional Conference of Bar Associa-
tions opens today in this city
Never before has there been such
notable gathering of nationally
known lawyers in this city.
For two days the delegates will
discuss the problem of legal educa-
tion. The conference represents
local. State and national bar--asso
Citations. and any action taken will
strongly influence the future path
which lawyers must follow before
they can be admitted to practice.
The demand that a candidate for
the bar should have two years of a
general collegiate education and
three years Of legal training in "A
full-time law school will be dis.
cussed. II is expected that deci-
sion on the training necessary will
be reached at the session tomorrow
afternoon.
Root Speaks Today.
The National Conference of Bar
Associations was organized in 1915
at the suggestion Of Elihu Root.
For several years Root served as
chairman The present chairman is
Judge Clarence ". Goodwin, for
merly justice of the Illinois Appel
| late Court.
Elaborate preparations have been
made by the District Bar Associa-
ton for the entertainment of the
| 200 visiting lawyers. Attorney Cen
eral Harry NJ. Daugherty. chairman
of the reception committee. called
/ IF hiS
TUESDAY, at which final details OF
the program were decided.
| ! The program of the conference
opens this morning in the audito-
rum of Memorial Continental Hal,
J Seventeenth and d streets north
west. at IL o'clock. with an address
! by Judge Goodwin. Mr.. Root will
| deliver an address on The Resolu-
tions Adopted by the American Bar
Association"
Justice Taft to Preside.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
confereac will meet again in the
| auditorium. with William III. Taft,
Chief Justice of, the United States
Supreme Court. presiding. The sui
| sect for discussion will he "The
| preliminary EDUCATION to BE Re
!
| requirements" The Introductory
papers will be read by Prof. Samuel
| Williston. Harvard Law school;
SiIas II. Strawn. presidenT Illinois
bar Association. and Dr. James r.
Angel. president Of Ysle Univcr-
| sity.
This evening the delegates will
gather in the ballroom OF the New
Willard Hotel at /s:3e o'clock to
hear an address bF DIR. William II.
| welch. director, of the school Of
hygiene and public health, Johns
Hopkins University. on Some of the
Influences Determining Recent Adj
yances in Medical Educatica'
Hampton J.. Carson will preside.
President to Receive.
The first session tomorrow morn
/ ing will convene at $3.50 o'clock IN
the auditorium of the Memorial Con-
tinef,tal Hall with William Gions
McAdoo presiding. The subject VIII
kbe The Technical Education Neces-
sary for Admission to Practice at
the Bar" Papers opening various
phases of the discussion will be read
by James Byrne. president Of the
Association of the Bar of New York
City, George T.. fTlCt, Ok "cSh va
sinia: Frank H. Sommer. of New
York; and William Draper Lewis.
former dean Of the University Of
Pennsylvania.
John w. Davis will preside at
the afternoon session tomorrow.
scheduled for the auditorium at 1880
o'clock. A completion of the dis
cussions and final action by the con-
ference on the matter of legal edu-
cation VIII occupy the delegates.
The official conference will adjourn
tomorrow afternoon in time to be
received by President and Mrs. Hard
ing at 4:30 O'Clock. Special cards
of invitation will admit all dele
gates, alternates. representatives of
universities, and women accompany
ing them. Following the presenta-
ton at the White House. there will
be receptions held by Mrs. Alfred
Thorn and Mrs. Milton Elliott.
Dinner to Close Program.
The program will close with a
dinner at the New Willard Hotel at
1880 o'clock tomorrow evening. Cor
denio A. Severance president Of the
American Bar Association. will act
as toastmaster. The speakers at the
banquet will be, Attorney General
Daugherty, Senator George Wharton
Pepper and William L. Frierson, for
mer Solicitor. General of the United
States.
Attorney General Dangherty will
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