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1 Ernest W. Huffcut, A Decade of Progress in Legal Education: Address as Chairman of the Section of Legal Education 1 (1902)

handle is hein.lbr/dplgeac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A DECADE OF PROGRESS IN LEGAL EDUCATION. ADDRESS BY ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, OF CORNF4,L. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, As Chairman of the Section of Legal Education. At this, the tenth annual meeting of the Section of Legal Education, the occasion seems a fitting one to review the work and progress of the past decade. In August, 1892, a com- mittee composed of James Bradley Thayer, Simeon E. Bald- win, William G. Hammond, Ed. Baxter and George M. Sharp, was appointed to prepare plans and issue invitations for a general meeting of those interested in legal education. The committee acted with vigor and despatch, and at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in August, 1893, this Section was organized and a programme presented with papers by Austin Abbott, Emlin McClain and Samuel Williston. At that meeting, Henry Wade Rogers was elected Chairman of the Section and George M. Sharp, Secretary. The Chair has since been occupied by James B. Thayer, Emlin McClain, Edward J. Phelps, Simeon E. Baldwin, William Wirt Howe, Charles Noble Gregory and H. B. Hutchins. Mr. Sharp served as Secretary until 1901 and the marked success of the Section has been due in large degree to his untiring and efficient services. Of those who helped to organize and carry on the work of the Section, some, alas, are no longer with us. William G. Hammond, who was on the Committee of Organization and took a leading part in the work of the first annual meeting, died before the second annual meeting convened in 1894. Austin Abbott, who also took a prominent part in the work of organization and read a most valuable paper at the first annual

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