The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal April 15 1906

Hence we see the spectacle of our great American universities splendidly equipped with the means of giving to the youth of the nation instrution in all the wisdom of the earth clOsing the deerof their law departments against all except those who come to enter the novitiate for the bar. [...] The university as a factor in modern life ought chiefly to serve the great army of young people who expect to enter none of the professions but wish to fit themselves to be intelligent and efficient members of the body politic Of the true university tlardinal Newman spoke when he said : Its art is the art of social life and its end is fitness for the world." If the study of law is a fruitful [...] The history of the law is the history of social effort : the status of the law marks the prevailing level of social comlitions. [...] Blackstone in justifying the presentation to Oxford undergraduates of a survey of the law of England said :- That a science which distinguishes the criterions of right and wrong ; which teaches to establish the one and prevent punish or redress the other ; which employs in its theory the noblest facuties of the soul and exerts in its practice the cardinal virtues of the heart ; a science [...] Thus at the University of Michigan a six year combined course is offered the fourth year of residence being devoted largely to first year law studies in the completion of which the A. B. degree is conferred and two years later if the remainder of the law course is taken the LLB.