I cannot state too strongly my great debt to
it, and to Franklin Dexter, Simon Greenleaf, Joel Parker,
and Theophilus Parsons. I have no remorse for wasted hours
during those two years. The time in a Law School is never
likely to be wasted if the youth have in him any spark of
generous ambition. He sees the practical relation of what
he is learning with what he has to do in life. The Dane Law
School was then, and I suppose it is even more true of it
now, a most admirable place for learning the science of law
and preparing for its practice. The youth breathed a legal
atmosphere from morning till night all the year round. He
had the advantage of most admirable instruction, and the resources
of a complete library. He listened to the lectures, he studied
the text-books, he was drilled in the recitations, he had
practice in the moot courts and in the law clubs. He discussed
points of law in the boarding-house and on his walks with
his companions. He came to know thoroughly the great men
who were his instructors, and to understand their mental processes,
and the methods by which they had gained their success.
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