COLLEGE OF LAW* REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION 1. All applicants for admission to the College of Law must be at least 18 years of age and of unquestioned character. 2. Graduates of colleges and of scientific schools of approved standing are admitted upon diploma or certificate, without examination. 3. Graduates from any approved high school in the state are admitted in the same way. In the absence of proper certificates the usual examinations for admission to the freshman class of the University (p. 62) are required of those who enter as candidates for a degree. ADVANCED STANDING The following classes of persons will be admitted to advanced standing: I. Persons who produce from another law school, in good standing, certificates of having satisfactorily pursued courses in law, included in the following schedule, and of having received credit therein, provided that the time spent on such courses is equivalent to the time spent on the same courses in this College. Otherwise, an examination on such courses, given by the instructors in this College, must be satisfactorily passed. 2. Persons who have studied law privately, or in an at A special circular describing the work of the College of Law in detail may be obtained on application to the Registrar. torney's office, and pass examinations prescribed by the faculty of the College. 3. Members of the bar of this state, who will be adinitted to the third-year class without examination, as candidates for the degree of LL.B. SPECIAL STUDENTS Students who do not desire to be candidates for a degree may take one or more courses as special students, upon approval of the faculty of the College, under regulations prescribed by the University (p. 63). Such students will receive credit for work satisfactorily done, and may become candidates for graduation at any time by meeting the requirements of the College. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION The methods of instruction used in this College are based largely upon the study of cases. Text-books are used to some extent, and lectures are occasionally resorted to, but the study of the case is regarded as the chief means to the attainment of legal knowledge and proficiency. LIBRARY AND MOOT COURT The library consists of the leading text-books on all subjects: Supreme and Appellate Court Reports of Illinois; United States Supreme Court Reports; English Reports; New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana Reports; American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports; the current volumes of the West Company Reporter System, and the leading legal periodicals. The Moot Court is held once a week for the purpose of familiarizing the student with legal procedure. It is presided over by Judge Harker, the other officers being elected by the law students from their own body. All sec ond and third year students are required to be present and to perform such duties as may be assigned them. LEGAL STUDY AND UNIVERSITY WORK The Council of Administration will, upon application, in proper cases, apply credits earned in the College of Law upon other University courses. Students matriculating in the College of Law may take any of the following courses: economics and social science, and history, subject to the approval of the Dean of the College of Law and the professors concerned. By special arrangement other work in the College of Literature and Arts may also be taken. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION Required for the Degree of LL.B. First Year I. Contracts (Law I); Torts (Law 2); Real Property (Law 3); Pleadings (Law 4); Personal Property (Law 6); Study of Cases (Law 6a). 2. Contracts (Law 1); Torts (Law 2); Real Property (Law 3); Pleadings (Law 4); Criminal Law (Law 5). Second Year I. Domestic Relations (Law 7); Evidence (Law 8); Real Property (Law 10a); Equity (Law 12); Damages (Law 13); Carriers (Law 14); Moot Court (Law 26). 2. Evidence (Law 8); Sales (Law 9); Agency (Law 11); Equity (Law 12); Wills (Law 18); Moot Court (Law 26). Third Year I. Bills and Notes (Law 15); Trusts (Law 16); Partnership (Law 29); Constitutional Law (Law 22); Corporations, private (Law 17); Moot Court (Law 26). 2. Real Property (Law 10b); Bills and Notes (Law 15); Corporations, municipal (Law 24); Suretyship, and Mortgages (Law 21); Constitutional Law (Law 22); Moot Court (Law 26). In addition to the foregoing course of instruction, required for the degree of LL.B., the following subjects are offered as electives in the College of Law: Elements of Jurisprudence (Law A); Practical Conveyancing (Law 25); Roman Law (Law 27); Insurance (Law 28); Admiralty (Law 29); Bankruptcy (Law 30); Conflict of Laws (Law 31); Quasi-Contracts (Law 32). REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION The requirements for graduation with the degree of bachelor of laws are seventy semester hours of work. A "semester hour," as here used, means one hour per week of class room work for one-half of a year. The degree is conferred upon the completion of the course set forth above. ADMISSION TO THE BAR Under the rules of the Supreme Court of Illinois, candidates for admission to the bar of this state must have had a high school education or its equivalent, must have completed a three years' course of study in a law school or law office, and must then pass an examination to be given by the State Board of Bar Examiners. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (For Faculty of the College of Medicine, see page 19.) HISTORY The College of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, is located on the corner of Congress and Honore Streets, Chicago, in the heart of the medical quarter of the city. It was founded in the year 1882 by a number of representative physicians and surgeons. In 1892 the College had a thorough organization, and erected a commodious laboratory building, the first building exclusively for laboratory purposes erected by any medical school in the West. Since that time it has grown with steadiness and rapidity. The attendance in 1895-96 was 235; in 1896-97, 308; in 1897-98, 408; in 1898-99, 514, 35 of the students being women; in 1899-1900, 579, 43 being women; in 1900-1901, 676, 49 being women; and in 1901-1902, 705, 49 being women. It became the Medical Department of the University in April, 1897. Chicago is already the center of medical study in the United States. Since the winter of 1897-98 it has contained a larger number of medical students than any other city in the western hemisphere. These students are distributed among fourteen medical colleges, of which the College of Physicians and Surgeons is the second, as to the size of its classes, and is not outranked by any in respect to its facilities, or the scope and thoroughness of its curriculum, or in regard to the place it occupies in the esteem of the medical profession. |