Emery County Progress | 1905-02-25 | Page 1 | Law No Longer Learned

LAW NO LONGER LEARNED president woodrow wilson of princeton bays bemeda for situation alea in university spirit declaring that the law no longer the learned profession it onca was president woodrow allson of i ton i ty the other night told tho pennsylvania bar association at its closing session at care N J that in tho university spirit applied to tho study of law lay the remedy or tho situation I 1 ask you if you believe you now belong to a earned profession he bald I 1 do not bellevo any man can become a learned lawyer merely by reading cases when wo seo put into a laboratory to n nie epen identa laid down in books I 1 know they eire not learning cheral try there Is a bread and butter pursuit of the law and another lesa remunerative but leading to al mastery the country must bs dived arora many things by legal arrangement and lawyers are bo ind in conscience and patriotism to supply the greater part of the oi are not going to and ny precedents in law to cover the situation in tho philippines I 1 an not sure that we what po poi i liberty Is bait if we can give people institutions suitable ta them than ours aro we have given them liberty it not the law