F. W. Mansfield, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, speaking at a luncheon of the Harvard Legal Aid Society on the afternoon of Thursday, December 18, stated that a much higher percentage of applicants from the Harvard Law School pass the Massachusetts Bar Examination than do those of any other Massachusetts law school.

Mansfield remarked that at the first trial approximately 90 per cent of the Harvard applicants pass as compared with about 65 per cent applying from Boston University, 47 percent from Northeastern, and 21, per cent from Suffolk.

Continuing, he said that almost all the Harvard men who fail on their first attempt to pass the examinations succeed on the second trial, so that few names of Harvard Law School graduates ever appear at any later reexaminations.

These figures are in Mansfield's opinion even more striking to the casual observer when he considers that the courses at Harvard deal in a general fashion with the principles of the common law, aiming at fitting the students for practice under the most varied circumstances, while some of the other schools focus their attention primarily on preparation for the Massachusetts Bar Examination.

Mansfield, who has had wide experience in problems of labor law as counsel for various Massachusetts labor unions, explained to the members of the Legal. Aid Bureau many interesting phases of that branch of the state law. His talk was made dramatic and interesting by illustrations from the many cases which he has handled personally, and from literature. In conclusion he drew several humorously striking contrasts between modern Massachusetts law firms and such creations of Dickens as "Spenlow and Jorkins" or "Dodson and Fogg."