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L E C T U R E I Y .
LAST WORDS— ADVISORY AND SUGGESTIVE.
As we are near the end of our second academic
year, and some of you are about to go out and
away from us forever. I take this opportunity to
say to the department some words of advice and
admonition, and which, though I trust will he
profitable to all, will be to the graduating class
last words, and a final adieu from this chair.
The past has been summed up and reviewed, and
a few sober words for the future alone remain to
be spoken. They will be entirely practical.
Upon admission to the bar, no long lapse o f
idleness should intervene before entering upon, or
holding yourselves out to enter upon, the active
labors of the profession, if you ever seriously in
tend to practice law.
Where shall you locate? Shall you form a
partnership? As to this last, the question may
be narrowed as to many of you, on account of
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