The Law As A Profession

Prof. F. R. Mechem gave the address at Newberry hall on Sunday morning, on the subject, "Law as a Profession." Law is indispensable. It is lutely necessary to the life of the individual as well as to society. The administration of justice is confifled entirely to the legal profession. Lawyers heve had control of public and governmental affairs, and have fought the people's battles for them. The profession offers great opportunities for usefulness, for social and ,political preferment, and for the accumulation of wealth. The qualifications for success are, good health, good education, mental fitness, (genius is more than a capacity for hard work), and moral fitness. It is a libel on the profession to say that knavery, chicaneryi and mere acuteness are elements of real success. No one should enter the profession who has not a special fitness for it, because the competition is too great and the field too full for anyone else to succeed.