part recruited, the effect of this diminished attendance, together with enlistment of the young lawyers, is beginning to be felt among legal practitioners, and perhaps will be increasingly felt until the close of the war. In Chicago the situation is said to be serious. In a letter to one of my colleagues from the secretary of one of the leading law schools there, it is stated that "young lawyers between the ages of 21 to 35 have practically all entered some form of military service and it is impossible to find a sufficient number of capable persons to take their places"; and the writer indicates that the faculty of his school is considering some more liberal entrance requirements for law students there and a special course of study adapted to meet the emergency described. From expressions to me privately by .some members of the profession, I think that the situation in Denver in some offices is unfortunate at the present time, and no doubt the dearth of capable young lawyers just now in offices having much business to transact is wide-spread. The faculty of the law school with which the present writer is connected has not felt that war conditions should induce the lowering of standards of legal education. Not more, necessarily, but better lawyers, will remain our general maxim. We are inclined to adhere to at least two years of preliminary college work as an entrance requirement for regular students; yet liberal special facilities will be offered the coming year to those, not candidates for a degree, who are seeking to qualify themselves for business, or clerical positions in law offices, and in rarer instances to those who, having the academic qualifications prescribed by the Supreme Court, will become entitled after three years of preparation to take the bar examinations, and who by their maturity of mind and years, their apparent earnestness of purpose and proven character are deemed eligible to the privileges of study which a state institution should afford. There is another class for whom it is believed that the law schools should have regard, the honorably discharged soldiers and won. sailors of the United States, who even now by reason of wounds or sickness have begun to come back to our country, and will continue to come, it is feared, in increasing numbers until victory is Recuperation camps are already being established. It is urged that many discharged soldiers and sailors incapable of engaging in active physical labor and desiring to fit themselves for professional work, will find, when they seek admission to professional schools, that they are confronted with educational standards of admission with which they are unable to comply. The extent to which such standards of admission can properly be changed to admit to the benefit of professional education those who have undergone the training, regularity, discipline, serious mindedness and sense of responsibility incident to military training, may well be seriously considered. It seems to be granted by the faculties of some law schools that substantial concessions can be offered to such honorably discharged soldiers and sailors without impairment of proper educational standards, and it is here submitted that such concessions are not only a patriotic duty that we owe to those who have risked their lives and health in their country's service, but it is also a duty that we owe to society as a whole, in that it will result in the making of useful and selfsupporting citizens of many who are incapable of making a living by physical labor or activity. Replies have been received to questionnaire recently sent out by the Law School of the University of Colorado from thirteen law schools-Leland Stanford. Junior University and the state universities of California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon and Wisconsin. While many of these answers do not professedly grant the concessions suggested, Missouri lowers the general entrance requirement from two years of college work to one year; Minnesota, in response to the question: "Does your school contemplate lowering its admission requirements for regular students during the period of the war”, says, "that future conditions may possibly necessitate some lower ing"; Leland Stanford Junior reduces the age limit for special students next year from 23 to 21; while, with respect to such students, and to the interrogatory whether greater liberality would be exercised in their discretionary admissions, Oklahoma answers, "Yes, to some extent", and Nebraska frankly confesses, "Returned soldiers probably favored". The Denver Law School, Dean Manley authorizes me to say, will make substantial concessions to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. It will perhaps be perceived that the law schools are approaching this problem of the returned soldier cautiously, as obviously its extent and complexity is not yet manifest. We should perhaps gather courage when we reflect that war is a great developer of character, ability, dignity and seriousness of outlook, and also when we are reminded that a large proportion, if not the majority of the leaders in our different professions for the last fifty years, were men who, with limited general education, entered such professions at the close of our great Civil War as retired Union or Confederate soldiers. In conclusion, and "in consideration whereof" (to give this paper a proper legal aspect) the School of Law of the University of Colorado hath in all confidence resolved that for the period of the war it will admit as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the United States who present evidence of a preliminary preparation deemed the equivalent of a high-school education, and the University itself in every department will open its doors to all such soldiers and sailors who give evidence of their ability to take and maintain their places among thoughtful men and women, to the end that patriotism may be gratefully acknowledged and upheld and that they themselves may be permitted to grow and expand in every richness and resource. Strange things sometimes come to be fulfilled or historically repeated. Who knows but that some day a returned soldier, per haps a Colorado boy, may truthfully recount to his classmates his adventures in foreign lands in these words of Othello: I have done the state some service and they know't. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATION OF Denver, Colorado, July 10, 1918. To the Colorado Bar Association: Your Committee on the Nomination of Judges by the Bar begs leave to report as follows: A Bar primary was initiated on May 27, 1918, when the first ballot was sent out, with which was enclosed a copy of the mode of procedure. The Committee adopted the mode of procedure in use in the Bar primary held in 1916 with two modifications: First-It was thought advisable to select four candidates for the two vacancies instead of six. Second-It was thought wise to limit the nominations on the preliminary ballot to the persons receiving ten or more votes. On the preliminary ballot 339 votes were cast. Twenty-four persons received the requisite ten votes. A communication was addressed to each of said persons advising that his name would be placed upon the list for further balloting, unless he declined to permit the use of his name, with the result that ten names were placed upon the second ballot, which was sent out on June 13th. Upon the second ballot 563 votes were cast. On this ballot three of the candidates received a majority of the votes cast and were duly nominated as follows: John H. Denison, Denver, Colorado William A. Hill, Fort Morgan, Colorado S. Harrison White, Pueblo, Colorado On June 26th a third ballot was sent out for the purpose of selecting the fourth candidate. This ballot contained the names |