Excerpt from History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, Vol. 1 Justinian, in his directions to the compilers of his Pandects, wrote: Begin, then, to instruct, with the guidance of God, your scholars in the science of the Law to the end that they may be made worthy ministers of justice and of the Republic. Such instruction and such end have been the aim of Harvard Law School since its foundation. If less than this were true, there would be no occasion for this book. In the preface to the first volume of his Reports, Coke said: It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing (the witness of times, the light and life of truth) and not wholly be taken to slippery memory, which seldom yieldeth a certain reckoning. Memorable things and memorable men have impinged upon the past of the Harvard Law School, and it has been my task to fix in writing some impressions, hitherto unpublished, of that past from men who formed a part of it, and to gather together from the disjointed writings of others their records of that past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.