Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-25 | Page 31 | How Mr. Taft Studied Law

I HOW HO h MR STUDIED TAFT LAW LAWI LAWf 11 I f II Mr Taft was destined to bo be 6 a lawyer law law- reF yer almost from the tO crad cradle e UI ills Ilia eduCation education edu edu- elu- elu cat cation on was shaped with that end in In his law studios studies he did something something some- some thing tiling that was characteristic It I Is told b by Charles G. G Come YH of ot Cincinnat Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- oath nati nat who was with Tuft Taft Tar at tho the law school In Cincinnati CincInnat that as tho the conclusion con con- elusion of ot his second year of ot study he went vent to lO Columbus Columbus passed tho the state examination and so 60 was eligible Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately to practice Most of or us would have o quit right there thore said Mr Comegys but that wasn't Tafta Tafts Tars Tar's way y He Ho pel pegged ed along alonG with the tho rest of tho the class casH for tor tho the remainder of ot the course and passed another examination with wih it It tie He le was as keen hero for tor honors as he ho had hod been In Yalo Valo There Thre was I another man Just as hot ar after r them It was a drawn battle batte T Taft r and his opponent Alfred 4 B. B Benedict we were so 81 o nearly of an equality in scholarship that tho the examiners no not nol decide which had hod passed paned the 1 totter examina tion They gave each of them and equal ton honors honor e 00 This was a In USO 1880 when Mr Taft Tart wo wu 2 22 yearn ear old