History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . nd tak-ing his share of the jjrizes in literature,oratory and debates. While in attendance atcollege, Mr. Lewis came in contact with twodifferent phases of religious thought andmethods of teaching. The University of Chi-cago, in those days a very strict Baptist in-stitution, was liberal in its teaching, devel-oping independence in study and self-govern-ment on the part of its pupils. Oberlin Col-lege, on the other hand, while
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . nd tak-ing his share of the jjrizes in literature,oratory and debates. While in attendance atcollege, Mr. Lewis came in contact with twodifferent phases of religious thought andmethods of teaching. The University of Chi-cago, in those days a very strict Baptist in-stitution, was liberal in its teaching, devel-oping independence in study and self-govern-ment on the part of its pupils. Oberlin Col-lege, on the other hand, while also understrict sectarian influence, interfered with theindividual development of the student byrules and regulations more adapted to schol-ars of a tender age. This wide contrast inmethod could not fail to impress the receptivemind of the subject of this sketch. He wasable to perceive the grievous tendency in theeducational system of those days to continethe student to routine and tixed standards,and its logical result in hindering his de-velopment through original processes ofthought. This served as an incentive in hisown study and in the development of latent. CH,\I!LES L. LKWIS. resources within himself. He realized earlythat the students natural trend of thoughtshould be given a practical turn in his educa-tion, and this no doubt was of great influencein shaping his after career. He did not en-joy, on leaving college, the advantages ofa training in a law school, but gained hisknowledge of the legal profession by a threeyears clerkship in a law office and privatereading. He was admitted to the bar in1879, coming to Minnesota in September ofthat year, settling at Fergus Falls. He be-gan here the practice of his profession, andsucceeded in winning for himself a fairlysuccessful law practice. He was electedcounty attorney of Otter Tail county in 1884,and was re-elected to the same position in1886, serving to the end of his second that Duluth afforded wider opp
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