. The boyhood and youth of Joseph Hodges Choate. « «3«^3t~«i(i iiliw>~,a34<^l:j^sw, fi4(J3iq YiViBl^fJ bi6vilH9rfj m SI sVyJoa-ilaVafifc. VI TRAINING FOR THE BAR The Law School, when I entered it in 1852, was,like each of the other departments of the university,a comparatively small affair. In our entering classthere were only forty-seven, and the other two classeswere of smaller numbers. What there was of teach-ing was done by two professors, and a university lec-turer. Judge Joel Parker, who had been chief justiceof New Hampshire, and Theophilus Parsons, whohad been a
. The boyhood and youth of Joseph Hodges Choate. « «3«^3t~«i(i iiliw>~,a34<^l:j^sw, fi4(J3iq YiViBl^fJ bi6vilH9rfj m SI sVyJoa-ilaVafifc. VI TRAINING FOR THE BAR The Law School, when I entered it in 1852, was,like each of the other departments of the university,a comparatively small affair. In our entering classthere were only forty-seven, and the other two classeswere of smaller numbers. What there was of teach-ing was done by two professors, and a university lec-turer. Judge Joel Parker, who had been chief justiceof New Hampshire, and Theophilus Parsons, whohad been a very successful lawyer in Boston, and wasthe son of the chief justice of Massachusetts of thesame name. Judge Parker, the Royal Professor ofLaw, was an exceedingly profound and learned law-yer. He was so erudite and profound that we of thelighter minds really could not successfully follow theaction of his, although men of sterner faculties, likeCarter and Langdell and my two brothers, got verymuch out of him; but to me the great light of theLaw School, while I was there, was Professor Parsons,a lawyer of much smaller caliber and lighter vein,but who, hav
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