The  problem  of  introducing  into  our  legal  educational  system
the  element  of  personal  contact  between  law  students  and  mem-
bers of  the  Bar  of  high  professional  ideals^  while  it  cannot  be
solved  by  attempting  to  return  in  whole  or  in  part  to  the  old
office  system^  or  by  throwing  the  responsibility  for  solving  it  on
the  schools^  can  I  believe  be  solved  by  a  united  effort  on  the  part
of  bar  associations  and  law  faculties.  The  definite  suggestions
I  am  about  to  submit  may  be  def  ective^  but  I  have  a  firm  belief
that  only  by  cooperation  between  interested  members  of  the  Bar
and  law  teachers  can  we  surround  the  modem  law  student  with
those  influences  which  will  tend  to  create  in  him  an  effective
desire  to  maintain  the  best  traditions  of  our  profession.
My  suggestions  are  these :

1.  State  or  local  courts  or  state  or  local  bar  associations^  as
may  best  suit  particular  conditions^  to  appoint  legal  educational
committees :  In  large  centers  of  population^  the  number  of  the
members  of  the  committee  to  be  about  one-tenth  or  one-fifteenth
the  average  number  of  registered  law  students  in  the  territory
for  which  the  committee  is  appointed.
2.  No  person  of  whose  moral  character  the  committee  is  not
reasonably  assured  to  be  allowed  to  register  or  continue  to  be
registered  as  a  law  student^  or  to  be  given  the  right  to  take  a
final  examination  for  admission  to  the  Bar.
3.  All  applications  for  registration  as  a  law  student  to  be
made  to  the  committee^  no  applicant  to  be  registered  until  a
report  has  been  made  to  the  committee  concerning  him  by  a
member  of  the  committee  especially  appointed  to  become  per-
sonally acquainted  with  him.
