Brinton Defends College and Law Course Program

Support of the proposed combination of College and Law School subjects to present a unified legal training for specially qualified students was offered yesterday by C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History.

"In this day of bureaucracy and increased governmental participation in business, it is becoming more and more important for the lawyer to know something about government and economics, and especially about the viewpoint of the experts in these fields.

"In the present system," he continued, "there is a definite tendency for the law student to set aside his undergraduate courses in these subjects as unimportant. He so buries himself in the pure techniques offered in the Law School, that he loses contact with the ideas of those with whom he will deal in later life."

Brings Student Nearer Reality

Professor Brinton explained that the proposed course of study would prevent him from enjoying too blissful an isolation from these realities. The program of study that it requires is not characteristically "pre-law," but includes study in a modern language, a science, philosophy or mathematics, and the social sciences over a seven-year period.

Admitting that the new program of study is intended more to keep the law student in touch with the social sciences than to aid the undergraduate, Professor Brinton pointed out that it will also insure the best preparation in college for the Law School.