be required to pursue a combined course of college and law school study of at least four years is very modest.

Then we ask you to say, not by way of recommendation of further requirements or changes of any rules but as a profession of faith, that you believe that it would be to the advantage of the young man who hopes to become a lawyer for him to go to college before he studies law. That this Association should make a recommendation of this kind is very important. There is a great body of young men going to professional schools without much thought or without much advice with respect to the requirements of their chosen profession. They don't know where to go to ask what they should do to secure proper preparation. They often receive no disinterested advice. They have a right to look to the members of the profession for an expression of opinion as to what is best for them to do. Our Association should be in a position to give very valuable and disinterested advice. I say that is a result of observation in my own experience. My own school is for all practical purposes a graduate school, but each year a group of men come and ask to be admitted without having the requisite college education. I always take the time to talk with these young men and to explain to them how important it is for them to get some liberal educationto become liberally educated men-before they begin their professional education. It is interesting to see how many of these men, when the matter is brought to their attention, go away and return in a few years after qualifying themselves for admission by acquiring the requisite education. These young men often haven't thought before about the necessity for liberal training in preparation. for the bar, and some of them come from such surroundings and situations that they have no way of finding out what others who are qualified to advise them may think they should do, in an educational way, to prepare themselves for the profession. I believe that if the lawyers'

organizations would place themselves in the position of saying to these men just exactly as the Council on Medical Education has done and as the Council on Legal Education in England has done, "There are certain things that you ought to know and that you ought to do if you are going to be a qualified lawyer," it would have a helpful influence in strengthening our profession. And finally I think that this Association could give impetus to the movement to have the American Bar Association exercise visitorial power over the institutions of legal education in this country. Such a programme was initiated in the American Bar Association. It even got under way, but lack of interest and lack of vigour and backbone in important places led to its falling by the wayside. But I have such a high opinion of the legal profession that I know that will not be the permanent resting-place of that programme.

No Association is in a better position than this Association to give impetus to the movement for a better bar through a more active interest in the bar generally, in the problems of legal education and bar admission. In this movement lies the solution of the problem of how to strengthen our bar. Unless bar associations take a real interest in this movement I do not see any solution of a problem which to me is a very real one and the most important one which the bar has to solve.