When Ignorance Is Not Bliss
(Continued from page 1)

pectancy was writ on both our But I never had sense enough that time.

faces. Not a word came from in college to know that there either of us. The room became were thousands of things

I

"FITNESS" IN MASSACHUSETTS

I was before suppertime, and Iways and type are required. sat there staring into space But he should know that there until after midnight. are Rules on those points. So All young lawyers come to much for brief-making. It is the bridge Our young lawyer should over the chasm of their realize the value of knowledge Students of evening law stilled a breathless silence fell which I should have observed, without stumbling, they are counting. The least he should sized committee room to the ignorance. If they cross it on the subject of Office Ac- schools crowded a moderatelike a pall, almost as unto death. without having been told to safe on the other shore. But know on that subject is that a doors, stood to the number of I lived years in that second or observe them. I remember one two. Finally I gathered myself of my classmates who failed in cross it they must. system of accounting is re- forty or fifty in the entrance together enough to ask him if an examination, largely because field of the law was like the taught a system, he should be cornices in the corridor so I had found that a great quired. If he hasn't been and perched on chairs and he swore he said he did-one he missed a point in an exami-book of Seven Seals to me. of the lawyers chimed in and nation question that involved a taught to gain some knowlhelped me a little-I gulped once ruling on a demurrer. And he saw that if I were to be a or twice and sat down with a then afterwards told me that lawyer I would have to learn flush on my youthful cheeks he did not know what a de- evident that I would have to that was not born of pleasure. murrer was. And here he had Needless to say, while that been studying law for two years on wading into them. My colwade into the books, and keep first witness was being examined and had read of demurrers every lege course wasn't the end of I got ahold of a hitherto de- day. And he didn't have enough spised Justice of the Peace As- interest in his work to take my studying-it was the besistant (Swan's Treatise) that down the dictionary or ask his ginning. was on the shelves, and com- professor what a demurrer was. My next experience as a young lawyer came in the

mitted the form of oath before the next witness was called.

since then-twenty years of the Twenty years have passed rough and tumble of general practice. But time has not dimmed the memories of my embarrassment—nor made me forgetful of what it all meant. My next duty was to carry out this peremptory order, viz: -"Look up Robinson vs. Sloane. If the Decree is on, issue Order of Sale."

Three jobs in one! Look up

How?

my experience in looking up
next morning or so following
the status of a case on the
dockets. This next experience
was when I found on my desk
a memorandum statement of a
case pending in an Appellate
Court. The memorandum was
quite complete, and closed
with the request that I prepare
a brief in support of the con-
tentions of our client.

edge on this subject from the that they might peer over the first young accountant friend heads of others into the room whom he meets, when he has when the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Judiciary sat recently on the

started in the practice. how to be one. It was quite

A lawyer should make a

study of office routine. He proposal to include the word

should adapt himself to the "fitness" in the statute which best manner in which to keep defines requirements for adstudy brief-making and mas-how little to charge for his ning law schools was foreseen A young lawyer should a record of the work he does. mission to the bar. Attempt He should know how much or to attack indirectly the eveter it; get out the practice watch the big lawyers try should learn how to maintain is sponsored by Judge Abrabooks and learn the practical work, after he does it, and by their spokesmen, who came phases of trying law suits how to write up a statement to register protest against for services rendered. He enactment of the bill, which with their methods. cases and become familiar a rotating calendar so that ham K. Cohen and James N. the matters that he must at- Clark of the character comhis attention on that calendar. tend to at sometime in the mittee on admission to the future, automatically come to bar in Massachusetts.

of the
It

The machinery
Courts is a life study.
can't be learned in one day

or in one year.

Neither

Likewise is the Machinery We should have some very Judge Cohen, the first of the Office of tremendous definite notions as to what our speaker, declared that there importance. How should you clients expect of us. The are many men being admitted A Brief! I had never seen client, or (b) with a witness? practitioner involves the men- practice law. open a conference, (a) with a viewpoint of the successful to the bar who are not fit to Robinson vs. Sloane! Where? one. To be sure, I had a How should you file your of- tal attitude of finding a lawful said, was not suggested and The bill, he general idea of what one was. fice papers? How should you way whereby See if the Decree is on! On But I had no specific knowl-keep a record of the time you proposed plan may be legiti-day law students. his client's has nothing to do with any what? Where would it be, if edge on the subject, no skeleit wasn't on something? But it ton outline in my mind or on spend on a case? How may mately carried out. Anybody has it anything to do with might be in something! What paper, no definite notions one endar and daily work sheet so something. And many a law- educational qualifications. The you maintain a rotating cal- can find reasons for not doing is a decree anyway? I had way or the other, good, bad never seen one. I felt that it or indifferent, as to what had something to do with the method of treatment was best. ultimate decision of a case, just what, I wasn't quite sure. I plunged into the books, and got a pretty fair idea.

So

Issue Order of Sale! Could anything be more explicit? Or more meaningless! What is an Order of Sale? Who was I, that I might issue one? Would I have to get up a petition of many signers, or draft a petition of many parts? Again I went to the books. What little industry I had was once more rewarded. A præcipe was required. I knew what that was. Meager experience gained in my brother's and my uncle's law offices had taught me that.

Here I was up against it
again. But time was precious.
I got at the brief.

pleted. I took it in to the
In due course it was com-
member of the firm who had
requested it. This was

about 4:30 in the afternoon.
at
He left at 4:45. I saw him go.

He

that matters will not get
buried in your files?
A lawyer must have in mind
a deep, abiding knowledge of
the art of Brief-Making. He
should have a skeleton outline
ory.
of a brief committed to mem-

He should know what it his case, and where and how yers in different ways. means to state the History of themselves to different law- ents, to the court and to their to state it. Our brother lawyers. There are legal education is never com- many who lack familiarity pleted. It is a daily exercise.

that he must have taken my meant by the Statement of The thought occurred to me He should know what is brief home with him. Facts in a brief. There should must have! be no confusion in his mind But-well-finally the temp-between the Facts and the in his room to find out. There how to marshal his facts, how tation was too great. I went History. He should know was my brief-very comfort- to state them convincingly, ably reposing in the waste- what is meant by cross-referbasket. Instinct told me to now go to ences, the danger of overstate'Tis said there is no suf- ment and the fallacies of unthe Courthouse. I did. There fering equal to the pains of derstatements in certain inI met a young lawyer friend of an undelivered speech. It may stances. mine by the name of Hahn. He be so. Personally I would He should know what is had had a year's start on me, substitute an unread brief. and showed me how to run the meant by a Specification of I was crestfallen, down- Errors. He should know that Indices to the Dockets to ascer-hearted-somewhat rebellious he must separately, completetain the style and number of my too. There I was, shoved out ly, succinctly and clearly state case, where to find the decree into the world bearing the each one in itself, and where, and the præcipe docket, etc. crest of a lawyer, when I when and how. In all my experience I do not wasn't a lawyer at all. Three He should think I have ever met a man common, ordinary things had Points of Argument are, and know what who I thought was so learned. been asked of me, and I hadn't how and where to state them. And what Hahn showed me, the slightest idea how to go ended my troubles for that day, at any one of them. He should know how to But confidence in my general simply didn't have any ad- when and how to give citaI just then present his Argument, equipment as a lawyer had revance information about them tions, the value of italics, the ceived another severe jolt. at all, one way or the other. danger of overdoing emphasis, To all practical intents and the relative values of inductive purposes, I didn't know any- and deductive reasoning, etc. thing.

I had studied everything assigned to me in college. What my superiors set before me, I He should know that Courts worked at. I conceived it my I went out to the little room require Briefs of a certain size, business to obey orders. When where I was living. I sat drawn up in a certain way on they said "study this," I down on the chair and put certain paper with a certain studied it. Or "now take up my feet up on a little desk size type, and all that. He this," I did so. that I had had moved in. This needn't know what size and

Play the Game

In your journey along life's
highway,

Both in sunshine and in
storm;

Play the Game.
Things for you may not
come right,
Let not that your cour-
age blight;

Play the Game.
Calm the fears and ease
the pain,
And with added zeal be-
gin again;

Play the Game.
If you're firm in your con-
victions

Of what is right for you
to do;
Play the Game.
Don't stumble a
bit or
falter
When your conscience
holds the rein;
Play the Game.
If you play the game as it
should be played,
Honest, straight and un-
afraid;

You Win!

H. H. B., in Ten Point.

with the English language.
They can pass written exami-
nations, but when they appear
in person, it is apparent that
they think in their own lan-
guage and then translate into
English. Shouldn't they be
required to wait until they
have
more familiarity with
English?"

Martin Lomasney was the
first speaker for the opposi-
tion. He reviewed the his-
tory of legislation on admis-
sion to the bar, seeing in the
proposed legislation a bar to
the legitimate ambition of
young men. "You can't tell
what stone in the heap is the
best diamond," he declared.
"What member of the Houses
would have thought that the
North-
representative from
ampton would occupy the ex-
alted position that he holds
today? A man who is now a
justice of the Superior Court
started at the lathe of a ma-
chine shop. Don't you realize
what great institutions the
evening schools have been to
this state? The evening schools
are the colleges of the work-
ing people."

NEWS OF THE

Judge Thomas W. Swan,

PROFESSION Appeals bench, was given a ington in 1923, has just been

[Editor's note: We shall be

Grace Dailey, a young been appointed district judge a law office for general pracrecently appointed to the woman who was admitted to of the second judicial district tice at 120 Broadway. SenUnited States Circuit Court of the bar in the state of Wash- by Governor McMullen. ator-elect Wagner served Judge Carrigan will succeed eight years as a Supreme reception and dinner at the appointed divorce proctor for the late Judge A. L. Sutton, Court justice and also as an Union League, New Haven, King's County, in that state. who died recently. associate justice of the AppelFebruary 25th. A letter from Seattle being the principal late Division from which he Chief Justice Taft of the city in her county, it looks as United States Supreme Court if Miss Dailey has taken on W. F. Gurley, sixty-six, vet-resigned last October after was read expressing regret at a real job. The divorce proc- eran Omaha attorney, and re- being nominated by the Deminability to attend. President tor's duties are to investigate nowned as the city's best ocratic party for United States Angell of Yale paid tribute to divorce cases and report to orator, died January 10th on a Senator. Frank S. Dietrich, sixty- former Dean Swan's record the judge. Upon the proc- train near Capron, Iowa. four, Federal District Judge as head of the Yale Law tor's findings often rests the for twenty years at Boise, School. Professor Clark of final decision or decree.

pleased to receive from our readers items having to do with prominent members of the profession for publication in this department.]

California

Idaho, assumed his duties as
a member of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco, February 7th.

Judge Joseph S. Koford, a member of the Alameda County Superior Court bench, was appointed by Governor C. C. Young January 8th as presiding justice of division 2

of the First District Court of Appeals, succeeding Justice William H. Langdon, who was elected to the Supreme Court bench in November.

the Law School faculty, and
Dean Hutchins, successor to
Dean Swan, also spoke.

Kansas

The position is an important one.

New Hampshire
Judge Omar A. Towne, sev-
enty-six, one of the state's
best known citizens, and well-
known as well among the

Justice John A. Aiken of
the Superior Court, a former
resident of Greenfield, Mass.,
Judge A. S. Lapham, eighty- died in Baltimore, Md., in newspaper profession of the
one, dean of the legal frater- January. He was appointed
nity of southwestern Kansas, to the Superior Court in 1898,
died in Chanute, January 26th. and made Chief Justice in
and began the practice of law
He came to Kansas in 1869 1905, retiring in 1922.
in Iola, coming from there in
June, 1870, to New Chicago,
now a part of the city of Cha-

edited a weekly here.

George B. Covington, of the law firm of Covington & Moesel, died February 15th at his home in New York City.

Erection of a building for

state, died February 1st at his use of members of the Westhome. and for more than forty years home of its own, is being conHe was the state's chester County Bar Associaoldest newspaper publisher tion, which has never had a sidered by the Association, Judge Towne, who retired and Isidore J. Beaudrias, of judge of the Franklin Yonkers, the president, has Municipal Court six years ago on reaching the age limit, had appointed stantly maintained an office. nute, since when he has con- cial Municipal judge of St. been in failing health since seven members to further the

Maine

Minnesota

Judge James U. Schoon-
maker, for several years a spe-

Paul, and for forty years a
practicing attorney of the city,
died February 10th, at St.
Joseph's Hospital following
an illness of ten days. He
was seventy years old.

Governor C. C. Young Attorneys Frank M. Libby signed an emergency appro- and Elton H. Thompson have priation bill, passed at the formed a partnership for the short session of the Legisla- practice of law under the ture, making $35,000 available name of Thompson & Libby. to the newly created judicial Both are members of the council to provide extra com- Cumberland County Bar. pensation for judges during the balance of the fiscal year The Maine Bar Association, ending June 30th. Under this at its annual session at Auprovision, when a judge is gusta, adopted the suggestion transferred out of his own of Chief Justice Scott Wilson county to hear litigations, it that the association prepare will be possible to pay him a written code of ethics and E. B. Carrigan, prominent the difference between his recommend its acceptance by attorney of Blair, who has usual compensation and any every County Bar Association higher salary which may be in the state. allowed jurists in the county The newly elected presiwhere he is temporarily sit-dent, Erastus C. Ryder, of ting.

Connecticut Simeon Eben Baldwin, governor of the state of Connecticut from 1911 to 1915, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors from 1907 to 1910, Taking cognizance of the died January 30th at his home brilliant record of Charles in New Haven. In his pass- Hewitt Wright as district ating Connecticut loses her most torney for the western disdistinguished citizen, and the trict, Attorney Frederick W. legal profession an able and Bunnell, in behalf of members eminent lawyer and judge. of the Berkshire Bar, presented him with a handsome white gold Hamilton watch Attorney Leo Davis was suitably inscribed with a sentielected president of the Nor-ment from members of the walk Bar Association at the bar. The inscription was enannual banquet January 26th graved on the inside of the in the Royal James Inn.

case.

Nebraska

practiced law in Washington

as

last September.

Ex-Judge John Tuttle of
Farmington, ninety-three, died
February 4th at the Rochester
Hospital from pneumonia
after a short illness.

project.

a committee of

Charles Beatty Alexander, senior partner of the law firm of Alexander & Green, active as well in politics and many business enterprises, died February 7th at his home at 4 West 58th Street. He was seventy-eight and had been ill just two weeks.

New York Attorney Richard S. Chisholm, formerly a member of the firm of Brookfield, Chisholm & Thompson, died at Judge James B. Butler, his home February 12th in former law partner of SuNew York City.

Robert F. Wagner, Demo-
County for many years, has cratic senator-elect, has opened

preme Court Justice Guy,
died at his home in New York
City January 16th.
(Continued page 22, col. 4)

THUMBNAIL BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT AMERICAN LAWYERS

Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890)

The career of Samuel Freeman Miller, Justice of the Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890, is unique. He was born in 1816, reared on a farm in Kentucky, clerked in a drug store where he studied medicine, and was a practicing physician for ten years. He did not turn to the bar until he was thirty-one years old, being admitted in Kentucky, in 1847. He loathed slavery, and in 1850 removed to Iowa, where he helped to form the Republican party of that State, and became its leader. He could have had any offi e in the gift of the people of Iowa, but steadily refused. In 1862, there being two vacancies on the Supreme Bench, the entire bar of Iowa and its judiciary, without regard to party, presented his name to Lincoln, who knew him thoroughly, and he was appointed in July of that year. When appointed he was in his forty-seventh year, and had been at the bar but fifteen years. He was to hold office twenty-eight years, through another very critical and formative period of the Constitution; the post-bellum period, having to do with all the tremendous conflict of reconstruction, Negro suffrage, Civil War Amendments, and the enormous growth and development of railroad corporations and their regulation. He wrote more opinions than any Judge who ever sat on that bench, more than seven hundred in all, running through seventy volumes. He wrote more constitutional opinions than any Judge, living or dead. In my opinion he was the ablest Judge who ever sat on the bench with one exception, Marshall, whom he much resembled. He was a pronounced Federalist of Marshall's school, believing in a strong national government, but with the keenest solicitude for the rights of the States and that balance of power which the Founders established. He had the same massive logic as Marshall, overwhelming, unanswerable, conclusive. Marshall at his best was the greatest Judge who ever sat on any bench; at his worst where he was not interested, he was turgid, verbose and discursive. Miller always goes straight to the point, direct, concise, wasting no words. His power to seize and marshal the essential facts, to state them clearly, is extraordinary. On the Circuit, as a trial Judge, he was probably the best loved of all American Judges. His patience, his unfailing courtesy to every lawyer, young and old, his consideration for litigants and witnesses, high or low, and above all his keen sense of justice, his ability to find the kernel in every case, made him the idol of his bar. A strong partisan and union man, the South never had a stronger friend, and not one of his numerous opinions shows the slightest tinge of partisanship. There was something in him of the homely ruggedness of Lincoln, and the two understood and loved each other.

[From "The Constitution: Its Story and Battles," by F. Dumont Smith.]

making, conveyancing and Benjamin, the famous Angloprobate practice, office prac- American lawyer of Civil War Walter F. Dodd, formerly tice, trials, corporation prac- days. lecturer on Illinois Constitu- tice and current law. tion and Government and on Statutory Law and Construction, has gone to Yale to be professor of law in the Law School. A postgraduate course of An anonymous gift of one year leading to the de- $50,000 has been announced grees of J.D. and LL.M. has by the Harvard Law School been inaugurated. The work endowment fund. The gift is is confined strictly to prac- to establish a research fund tice work in pleading, brief- bearing the name of Judah P.

behalf of the school's $5,000,- sentatives, or members of var000 fund. Dean Roscoe Pound ious departments. and Professor Samuel WillisThis and other recent gifts ton explained to the guests have brought the fund total how legal research as proto $1,900,000, which includes posed by Harvard Law School the conditional gift of $750,000 is the best method for bringfrom the General Education ing the law into working har- tors has authorized the ap Board. mony with the complex life pointment of a full-time Dean Under Secretary of the of to-day. Attending the din- and one additional full-time Treasury Ogden Mills, a grad- ner were many of the Har-professor in the College uate of the Harvard Law vard Law School graduates Law. The Law School wil School, recently gave a dinner who are in the National Gov- then have four full-time in at his home in Washington in ernment, as Senators, Repre- structors.

At the joint faculty meet

Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, N. Y.

In order to enable prospec

University of Wisconsin Law
School
Madison, Wis.
During the second semester of

Mr.

He received the degree

Kansas City School
of Law
Kansas City, Mo.
The 2,000-volume law libra-

The gift came from B. Hay

The University of Kentucky ing of the School of Law, tive students to meet the pre-1926-1927 the courses in Taxa-ry of the late Frank HagerCollege of Law has an at- comprising members of the law requirement of Brooklyn tion and Municipal Corporations man has been presented to the tendance of 101 the second faculty from Boston, Spring 1927, Columbia University, Law School will be taught by Elmer N. Powell, secretaryLaw School in September, at the University of Wisconsin Kansas City School of Law, semester of 1926-1927. This field, Worcester, and Proviattendance satisfactorily indi- dence, important policies con- through its Extension Depart- Mr. Newman F. Baker. treasurer of the school, ancates that the two-year col- cerning the maintenance of the ment in Brooklyn, opened a Baker has specialized in this nounced recently. lege entrance requirement will high standards of the Law new term on February 2nd, field. not greatly affect the size of School were considered. Sev- which is to continue until of J.S.D. from the University wood Hagerman and Mrs. the school, and the quality of eral policies were adopted to nineteen students have regis- his LL.B. from the University daughter of the distinguished August. Four hundred and of Chicago Law School, and Morrison Shafroth, son and work done by the students be placed in force this year. tered for this course. has perceptibly improved. These policies were aimed of Missouri Law School. He attorney, who died several toward increasing the effec- Professor Howard E. Metz- is at present practicing law in months ago. A further improvement has tiveness of instruction and ger, who gives courses of in- Kirksville, Mo. He has written The addition makes the libeen due to the new rule re- preparation on the part of the struction in Constitutional a number of authoritative brary of the Kansas City quiring each student to spend students. More rigid require- Law, Agency, Partnership, articles in the field of property school one of the best a minimum number of hours ments of promotion from the and Bailments, has been ap- law. He is substituting for in the library each week (ex- first classes clusive of morning hours); Curriculum changes were con- erty in the first-year class. will be absent on leave. were adopted. pointed to teach Real Prop- Professor Ray A. Brown, who equipped in the United States and more than adequate for the 700 students. This rule has greatly affected sidered and a Committee of His casebook on Agency has Philip Mechem, Associate the habits of the student body, the faculty appointed to make been published recently. Professor of Law, University Mr. Powell, "when we opened "Well do I remember," said for in former years, as all of Kansas Law School, will the school thirty-one years such studies as it deemed classes are held in the foreProfessor Thomas G. Grace, offer the second half of Torts necessary aimed toward the who became a member of the during the summer session of library consisted of two volago last September, that our noon, comparatively few stucloser coördination of the Faculty of Brooklyn Law the University of Wisconsin Trusts, is now teaching Part- outside lecturers who will assist nership.

Idents would return for study work of the various courses School in 1926 to instruct in Law School in 1927. The other umes of the statutes of Mis

and the betterment of instruc-
tion and scholarship stand-
ards.

in the afternoon or evening.
The new rule has resulted in
large numbers of the students
working in the library at all
hours, and has helped to con-
vince them that the study of
law is a full-time occupation.
The operation of the plan Mr. Livingston Hall, 3L,
merely requires each student who is Chairman of the Board

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.

Professor Franklin F. Russell, who has taught Roman Law, Jurisprudence, and International Law in the postgraduate course for several

souri. Purchases by the facthe regular members of the ulty and gifts from lawyer friends of the school have staff, are Professor Joseph Bingham, Stanford University brought the total to 7,000 volLaw School, and Professor umes, including reports of the states of the union, together William E. McCurdy, Harvard Law School. with textbooks, digests and encyclopedias."

to register "in" or "out" at the of Student Advisers at the years, is now teaching Legal who retired from teaching after

History in that course.

The library of Mr. Hagerman was well selected and collected over a period of years. Northeast and It includes South Atlantic reports.

South Jersey Law School Camden, N. J. Saturday, March 5th, 1927, of New Jersey granted the the State Board of Education mission to confer the degree South Jersey Law School per

Professor Howard L. Smith, librarian's desk. The success Harvard Law School, has twenty-five years of service in of this simple regulation at made the following report of The Practice Court of the University of Wisconsin the University of Kentucky the work of the moot courts Brooklyn Law School is un- Law School, has been residing warrants the hope that other this year: der the supervision of Profes-abroad during the past year, and law schools may find it Seventy-seven law clubs of sor Edwin Welling Cady, expects to remain there indefiequally helpful in creating the eight men each were formed assisted by Professors Mark- nitely. atmosphere of work and re- of first year men in the school. ley Frankham and Thomas G. The course in Criminal Law search which should charac- Of these, sixty-four have com- Grace. The first- and second- at the University of Wisconsin terize every law college. pleted their full schedule of year students are selected as Law School is being given durThe Kentucky Law Journal 538 out of the 618 men in the dents act as counsel, witnesses, Fox LaFollette, a graduate of moot court arguments, and jurymen, the third-year stu- ing the present year by Philip has had an unusually success-class have qualified for moot and parties in the various ac- this Law School, just completful year. Among the contrib-court work the second year. tions. utors have been Aaron Sapiro, Each man in the club argues are Motions and appeals ing a term of district attorney argued before selected of Dane County, Wisconsin. of Bachelor of Law upon those students who successgeneral counsel of the Burley three times, once alone against members of the Faculty; and The course in Criminal Law Tobacco Association, Gover- another man in his club, once each Saturday afternoon the formerly was taught by Pro- fully complete the regular nor Charles S. Whitman, The with another man in his club trials are held before eminent fessor Arnold Bennett Hall, of course of law study. President of the American against a pair from his club, members of the bar and the Department of Political Sci- State Board of Bar ExamiBar Association, Senator Thomas F. Walsh, U. S. Sen- in his club against a pair from ence, who recently resigned to ners has also taken action and once with another man bench. accept the presidency of the to the effect that it will ator from Montana, and Jus- another club. On April 2nd, the Junior University of Oregon. recognize our school for credit Second- and Prom will be held at the Hotice Flem D. Sampson and third-year men Richard Priest Deitzman of and preside over the argu- cial event of the school year the University of Wisconsin clerkship, leaving one year to are justices tel Plaza; this is the main so- been on leave of absence from in lieu of two years of office Eugene A. Gilmore, who has for work done in the school the Kentucky Court of Appeals. and is attended by members Law School, as vice governor of be actually served by the stuall the classes and by the Faculty. undergraduate the Philippines, continues on dent in a law office. leave for the present year. (Continued page 8, col. 1)

ments.

Twenty-five clubs of eight of Among the lecturers who men each entered the compehave appeared recently before tition in the second year. Of the student body are: Judge these four have qualified to Richard Stoll of the Fayette enter the third-year competiCounty Court, on "The Inter- tion next year, the Scott Club, pretation of Wills;" Judge J. the Sanford Club, the BryceP. Hobson of the Court of Powell Club, and the Beale Appeals of Kentucky on "Ap- Club. Each club argued four pellate Proceedings;" Mr. times against other clubs, and Robert Friend of the Fayette the eight with the highest perCounty Bar on "Progress centage of victories argued Through Conflict;" and Mr. one other argument, the four Herbert Moore of the Clark winners qualifying as above. County Bar on "The Administration of Criminal Justice."

University of Pennsylvania

Law School Philadelphia, Pa. Professor William S. Holdsworth of Oxford University, England, author of "History of English Law," will deliver five lectures at the Law School during the week of May 2d to 6th, subject: "Some Aspects of Legal History."

The final argument of the third-year competition was between the Scott Club, represented by R. K. Chase, 3L, and W. C. Carter, 3L, and the Smith Club, represented by J. W. Avirett, 3L, and W. D. Gallagher, 3L. The court was composed of the Hon. C. P. Marshall, Chief Justice of Ohio, the Hon. Scott Offutt, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and the Hon. F. F. Crane, Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York. The Scott Club won the competition.

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News of the Schools (Continued from page 7)

Yale University School of Law
New Haven, Conn.

Thomas W. Swan has resigned as Dean to become judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, second circuit.

Yale University has announced the election of Robert M. Hutchins, Secretary of the University, as Acting Dean of the School of Law, succeeding Thomas W. Swan, who has resigned to become a judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Hutchins graduated from Yale College in 1921, after serving with the United States Ambulance Service in the Italian Army, where he received the Croce di Guerra. He took office as Secretary of the University in 1923, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes. In college he was class orator, captain of the debating team, and winner of the DeForest prize for the best oration delivered by a college senior. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho, and the Senior society of Wolf's Head.

Mr. Hutchins completed his studies in the Yale Law School while acting as Secretary of the University, receiving his degree of magna cum laude in 1925. He was a member of the Yale Law Journal editorial board, of Chi Delta Phi, and the honorary scholastic legal society, the Order of the Coif. Immediately after graduation, he was appointed to the Law School faculty. Mr. Hutchins has specialized in procedural subjects and has published articles on Pleading and Evidence. He is a son of the Rev. President William J. Hutchins, of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. He was born in Brooklyn in 1899, and married Miss Maude Phelps McVeigh, of Bay Shore, L. I., and New York City.

Admission is granted to students who have fulfilled the requirements for entrance to the College of Arts and Sciences, and who, in addition, have completed two years of college work, or, if less than eighteen years of age, three years of such work. This requirement of college work is interpreted as sixty-five semester hours of non-professional work in one of the colleges of the University, or its equivalent in some other university, except that a student who has completed sixty semester hours may be admitted upon condition. Such condition must be removed within one year after admission, and no work taken during the law school year will be counted in removing it. Without special permission from the Dean, students who have not previously studied law are not admitted to the College of Law the second semester.

Attendance at all classroom exercises is required. Students absent from twenty per cent of their classes will receive no credit for the semester, and students absent from twenty per cent of the classes in any subject will receive no credit for the course, except upon petition approved by the faculty. Failure to pass in one-half of the work taken will be cause for dismissal from the University. A student who fails or is conditioned in one-third of the work taken will not be permitted to attend classes in the College of Law for a period of one semester, except upon petition approved by the faculty. A student who fails in any required subject must register for that subject again the first time it is offered. One who is conditioned or is incomplete in a subject must remove the condition or incompletion by the end of the first semester in which that subject is again offered, or it becomes a failure. Sixty is the passing grade, but not more than twenty per cent of the grades may be below seventy for the purpose of graduation except by vote of the law faculty after cause shown. Grades are determined from the results of semester examinations.

The instruction is by the "Case" or "Source" system. Each student is required to have an individual case book in class. Case books may be purchased from the University at cost, or rented. Every effort is made to make the work both scientific and practical.

Dean Swan will soon take up his duties as Circuit Judge, and Mr. Hutchins will begin work at once in the Dean's office of the Law School. in the subject. The study of taining dormitory space for took the subject is thus made more 250 men, an auditorium in Important changes place in the Yale School of intensive than is practical with which the entire school may Law under Dean Swan's a large class. Men qualified gather, a large number of leadership. The first Honors to engage in research are in- seminar rooms for graduate Course in any law school was vestigating specific problems. and honors work, accommodaintroduced, while plans have The entrance requirements tions for an extensive library, been adopted whereby the have been increased to such and the usual classroom arschool will train the highest an extent that applicants will rangements. With the limitatype of student, and give the be selected on a competitive tion of numbers, it will be highest type of instruction. In basis. The restriction in en- possible to develop an intithe Honors Course, the better rollment, recently adopted, will mate atmosphere of profesmen in the third year are al-keep the total number of the sional solidarity and scholarlowed to do independent work, school within 400, and is the ship. individually and in small most drastic limitation any groups, free from the regular law school has placed upon its routine of the classroom. It numbers. It is expected that consists of seminar courses the University this fall will and research under the super- announce plans for the Law vision of a member of the School buildings to be erected faculty. The seminar courses by a gift from the trustees of are strictly limited in the the estate of John W. Sterlnumber allowed to enroll, and ing, '64, of New York City. cover the same general field The designs for the building covered in the regular courses call for a Gothic group con

Columbus College of Law

(Y. M. C. A.)
Columbus, Ohio
Paul W. Selby is now teach-
ing the subject of Private
Corporations.

New courses are being of-
fered in Private Corporations
and Probate Practice.

University of Mississippi

School of Law
University, Miss.

No changes have been made
in the faculty.

A course on Administrative
Law has been added.

The President of the State
Bar Association delivered his
annual address to the School
of Law on the 26th of Feb-
ruary. This was followed by
a banquet at which much good
fellowship prevailed.

A new form book is just from the press by General Hemingway of the law faculty, also Hemingway's Code of Mississippi Laws has been brought down to date.

The students of New Jersey Law School are publishing for the first time in the history of the school a senior year book. In competition for the selection of a name for the annual, 500 names were submitted. "The Legacy" was the name chosen. The students have also published their first edition of a school newspaper, "The Barrister."

Professor Leslie C. Strickland, of the Law School Faculty, has been made Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the compilation and revision of New Jersey statutes, and is now actively engaged in that work. The completed work will be of great benefit to the Bar of the State of New Jersey, as the present compilation is not at all accessible or workable.

Volume I of Professor Strickland's book, "Cases on the Law of Real Property in New Jersey," was ready for the students at the beginning of the second semester. Over ninety per cent of the cases are leading New Jersey cases. This book has been published as a part of the policy of New Jersey Law School to use New Jersey cases as far as possible in the instruction of its students. Volume II of "Cases on the Law of Real Property" will be ready for the students' use beginning next fall.

Professor Charles J. Turckhas joined the Faculty of New Jersey Law School. Professor Turck is now Dean of the University of Kentucky Law School, Lexington, Kentucky. He will meet his first classes September next.

Dean Turck graduated from degree of A.B. in 1911. Tulane University with

received his A.M. from Columbia University in 1912, and his LL.B. from the same University in 1913. He practiced with the firm of Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, from 1913 to 1916, and was associated with Isaac Heller as counsel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1919 to 1920. He was educational director, War Work Council of Y. M. C. A., in Pensacola, Florida, and Paris Island, South Carolina, in 1919. He was Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School, 1916-1920, and Professor of Law and Secretary of the Law School of Vanderbilt University, 1920-1924. Since 1924, he has been Professor of Law and Dean of the University Kentucky, College of Law.

University of Oklahoma
Law School
Norman, Okl.

of

Due to the ever increasing enrollment in the Law School, and in accordance with policy of limiting numbers and Two thousand new books raising standards. last semeswill be added to the law ter over twenty-five per cent library during the spring of the freshman class received nonpassing grades.

months.