BEST SCHOLARS RETAIN LEAD

A comparison of the college standing of 250 Yale alumni who have attended the Harvard Law School from 1900 to 1915 and of the averages to which their work in the Law School entitled them, substantiates the theory advanced by President Lowell that excellence in Professional studies depends more on the proficiency of the student himself than on the subjects he studies as an under graduate.

An investigation of the records of Harvard graduates in the Law School and Medical School has shown that men who had the highest scholastic records as undergraduates, maintained them when they entered the professional school, while those who did not achieve distinction as undergraduates, continued to remain obscure in scholastic standing.

The Yale men, whose records have been considered, bear out this theory. Yale men who stood high in their classes as undergraduates have done the best work at the Harvard Law School, and those who were students with ordinary records continued on about the same plane in the Law School.