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Show WIGKERSHAMTO The Attorney General Delivers Strong Address to Alumni at Harvard College. MORE THAN COLLEGIATE TRAINING IS REQUIRED Unrest of Times Points to Fact That Corporate Greed Must Not Rule. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Juno 28. The Harvard law school set tho commencement commence-ment pace today, althouch class cele-1 orations, especially that of 1880, in which former President Roosevelt was grnduat'ed, also held nttontion. Tho law school alumni had as orator ora-tor of the day Attornoy General Wick-ersham. Wick-ersham. In his opinion the college trained lawyer law-yer will solve the rcat legal and economic eco-nomic questions of government in this and tho next generation. JIo will not be tho man whoso ovy acquaintance with the prineipjes of law and government has been derived from toxt. books and loctures, such a man would not .be equipped io copo with them. He must bo tho man who has found the "living law" as it has been developed in tho roal transactions of men. Except with possible rare exceptions, excep-tions, tho day of the plodding student who read h s Blackstone in a desultory, unmethodical, interrupted fashion from the musty shelves of some practicing counselor, is over. Advantage of Training. The college trained lawver of this and the coming generations who will oolvo tho problems of government is tho man who has mastered the principles and doctrines of law as a science through tho selection, classification and analysis of adjudged cases involving thoif application. Mr. Wickersham made an able address. ad-dress. In his opening words ho declared de-clared ho had been able to obtain scant leisure from tho duties of official life and referred to himself as "an overburdened overbur-dened public official whose mind was necessarily crowded with tho prosaic and exacting details of government." "Contentment with mediocrity," Mr. Wickersham continued, "is in my opinion, one of the greatosfc dangers which confronts successful democracy everywhere. The hopo of averting it rests largely with men of sound legal education.'' The attorney genoral then reviewed fn brief tho development of the last few years toward the control of public utilities, and compared to it. the growth of the machinery of trade, now come to a control of great lines of industry by corporations or individuals. "Never beforo has it been possible to lay so direct a toll upon the public through the cencentration of industrial power," he said. "Tho full significance of the attompt to check tho growth and power of great combinations through the commerce clause of tho constitution was scarcely percoived at the time of the enactmeut of the Sherman law, nor until successive interpretations of it had been given by tho supremo court. Lessons of History. "The history of nations' indicates that at a certain period of national development de-velopment it becomes necessar3r to interpose in-terpose by legislation between tho rapa-cit rapa-cit yof individual greed and n'ustico aud fairness to tho whole people. ''The right of every community to legislate respecting property affected by a public use was early recognized." The Roosevelt" class of 'SO journeyed out to tho Hoosick Whisick club in the Blue hills, whero all sorts of sports were enjoyed by athletes of thirtv years ago. As Colonoi Roosevelt had already notified noti-fied the secretary he would not be at those observances, tho members wcro : undisturbed by a curious throng. Seven classes lunched and dinod at the Couutr3' club at Brookline, while later in tho day many of the officials of the university wero busy welcoming candidates for honorary degrees to be conferred at commencement tomorrow. |