the advancing demands of modern society, both through
legislation and through judicial decision, furnishes a field for
research and investigation which demands the highest type of scholarship
and training. The modern law student seeks the principles of his science
through a careful study of the cases themselves, and no longer accepts a
dogmatic statement of the law as laid down in textbook and lecture. This
change in the legal curriculum, which is little less than revolutionary,
is really based upon scholarship and research on the part of every
student, and is reflected in the preoccupation of every law student in
his work. Gone are the days when the Law Department was the resort of
those who could not succeed in the other departments.

In more practical and especially industrial fields the College of
Engineering has also contributed its share, though it was considered a
part of the Literary Department throughout all its early years. While
its aim is to train men in technical branches, the field of
investigation has been by no means neglected, even if the questions
studied have largely borne specifically upon such problems as railway
and steel construction, the functioning of various types of engines,
marine design, the various forms of the utilization of electrical
energy, and the many applications of science to industry undertaken by
the Department of Chemical Engineering. That this work has been
appreciated is evidenced by the increasing number of fellowships for
original research maintained by many private corporations, and by the
suggestion and tentative establishment in 1920 of a general Department
of Industrial Research maintained through co-operation by the
manufacturers of the State with the Faculty of the Engineering College.
It is specially stipulated that the results of whatever investigations
are made under these auspices are to be made public for the benefit of
the people of the State, irrespective of the source of income.

This developing spirit led to the formation of a Research Club which has
had a profound though quiet influence in the growth of scholarship in
the University. The Club meets at stated periods in the Histological
Laboratory in the Medical Building, a fact in itself significant of the
strong support the organization has always had from the Medical Faculty,
and ordinarily listens to two papers, contributed by members. The aim
is to present the problem under consideration clearly and with