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Updated: May 9, 2025
On receiving the President's assurance that the learned members of a law-debating society were not 'convivial rabbits, the elderly stranger buttoned his blue coat and beat a speedy retreat. No lawyer has given better witticisms to the jest-books than Sir Thomas More.
These words make it clear that Mr. Pool's 'company' was a select 'law-debating society. Far smaller as to number of members, something more festive in its arrangements, but not less bent on furthering the professional progress of its members, it was, some two hundred years since, all that the 'Hardwicke' and other similar associations are at the present.
In past times law-students were proverbial for their talkativeness; and though the present writer has never seen any records of a Carolinian law-debating society, it is matter of certainty that in the seventeenth century the young students and barristers formed themselves into coteries, or clubs, for the practice of elocution and for legal discussions.
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