TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW

The class of 1906 of the Law School has published a report showing what becomes of law students after graduation. More than half of their number are still engaged in the practice of law. Nearly fifty are in business. Five are judges; three have reached the enviable peak of retirement; and ten have disappeared.

An investigation of the missing ten would be interesting and instractive. A few of them no doubt have died; a few, possibly, have met with some misfortune because of which they have voluntarily dropped out of sigtht; and the rest have gone, for reasons of their own, to distant corners of the earth.

One reads, in novels of travellers in far places--usually the South Seas--being approached by a ragged beachcomber with the request for the price of a drink, and recognizing, beneath the grime, a former class-mate of theirs. It is from the remainder that the beachcombers must be drawn. One can only wish that they had the courage to furnish their occupation to the class committee; so that their friends might look them up, on the veranda of some sinister hotel in the tropics and save them the embarrassment of asking for the drink.