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Show """. ' Tl -a33HBJBjBsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssj v AV v,"iJJtrjmSSSS)gSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB t,wt.r Ji.K)aMi.vl..iJjrt,')!'TiA,...t.t.;-1y ij.-lsB TIH LAWYERS THEN AND NOW. - ! ' 'H V Old-Timers Had Little Difficulty in J .H Entering Prof eaalon. j ''sLLLLi '-.lHlllllllllllllllllllllfl - fM Tho young, man who wants to bo a vH lawyor nowadays has a much harder f 'Jl road to travel than he who wished to ivl adopt the honorablo profession in tM days gono by. As a rule, he has to t'M tako a revoral years' course In ono ot ;H the law schools of the state, then pass fl tho state bar examination, which la 'Vl not. planned to fill the profession with '''JH blockheads.- "Formerly," said Mr, '. John P. Poe, now the oldest Instructor 1 In point nt sorvlco at the Unl- t';H versltj ot Maryland Law School, and sLLH former nttornoy general, "all a young ftisl man had to do was to read law In ' -H somo lawyor'a office, Thon ho went l before tho examining committee, 'fH which asked him a fow questions, jH aftor ho had boon vouched for by tho 'l lawyer under whoso' guldanco his iH 'studies' had been pursued. These tl questions, as a nite, wero kept in the '"1 ptgoonhole of tho Judge's desk, and It ' -'H tho aspirant for professional honors f'iH was very ambitious he could go and rsl see thorn boforehand and prepare him- r'l self for them. When my father went 1 up for oxamlnatton he waa askod two H questions, 'How many volumes la , jM Btackstono bound In?' which lo an- 1 swered satisfactorily, and 'Can you tell tho difference between whisky M and brandy?' Ho professed ability to fH discriminate and was passed. Tho H men who becamo great lawyers In iH llioso days did bo bocauso they woro ?H naturally la wyors, not because of the x ., A training they received." VH |