Photo by Emil P. Albrecht 

 ONE OP TLIE LIONS GUARDING THE NELSON MONUMENT I TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 



LONDON 



London annually spends more money than Greece ; its parks cover more territory than 

 Dallas. Texas ; its insane population is greater than the total population of Charleston, 

 West Virginia; the paupers provided for every day are greater in number than the total 

 population of Duluth, Minnesota ; its children of school age exceed the combined populations 

 of St. Louis and St. Paul; its army of school teachers is one-fifth as large as the standing 

 army of the United States. 



ble knights have slept these seven cen- 

 turies with other revered dust that once 

 bore well-known names. 



Anciently, men in holy orders were 

 sole practicers of English law, but some- 

 where about 1 200 the clergy were re- 

 strained from acting in any but ecclesi- 

 astical courts. There resulted some awk- 

 wardness, and, a century later, we find 

 the establishment of schools of common 

 law in inns near to the courts of law at 

 Westminster, to which "eager and apt" 

 students from the provinces might be 

 brought. In these inns of court and of 

 chancery, corresponding to our colleges, 

 the "earliest settled places for students 

 of law," not only law and divinity were 

 studied, but "dancing, singing, and in- 

 strumental music ; so that these hostels, 

 being nurseries or seminaries of court, 



were therefore called inns of court" 

 (Fortescue). 



WHERE BARRISTERS BEGIN 



The inns of court exist, with small 

 modifications, as they did six centuries 

 ago. There is no priority among the 

 four, and in all matters of common in- 

 terest their benchers (masters of the 

 bench, governors) meet jointly; but Mid- 

 dle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, Inner 

 Temple and Gray's Inn, are felt to have 

 closer alliance. 



An inn of court consists of benchers, 

 barristers, and students. The benchers 

 are senior, usually distinguished mem- 

 bers of the society and its governors. 

 They may be twenty, as at Gray's Inn, 

 or seventy, as in the Inner Temple. Their 

 chief duties are the admission of candi- 



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