Legal Research in West Virginia

A glance at the record of the Law School and the Bar of West Virginia leads one to ask why an untutored and unsophisticated foreigner should be invited to tell them what to do.Instead the foreigner should be invited to compliment the Bar and the School on what they have accomplished.I know of no state which can compare with West Virginia in the co-operation of law school and lawyer.You have a remarkable history in working together, and a spirit of mutual interest which promises continued achievement in the future.What you have done must strike envy into the heart of any law school executive.Working together you produced the building in which we are now assembled.Together you have made the educational requirements for the Bar as high as any in the country.Together you have made the Law Quarterly an outstanding publication of importance even outside the state.Together you have made salaries at this School sufficient to gather and retain a distinguished faculty.Together you have secured a dean whose intelligence and energy are already well-known beyond the borders of West Virginia.With his arrival ahd that of your new president you have begun an even more far-reaching venture, co-operative investigation of the practical problems of the State.