HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW. DIRECTORS. HON. WILLIAM H. BEATTY, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex-officio President of the Board.. THOMAS I. BERGIN, ESQ., Vice-President. OLIVER P. EVANS, ESQ.. THOMAS B. BISHOP, ESQ.... W. W. COPE, Esq.... Sacramento. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Mateo. San Francisco. Danville. FACULTY. MARTIN KELLOGG, President of the University, President. WILLIAM B. BOSLEY, First Assistant Professor of Law. LEONARD STONE, Registrar. CALENDAR AND DIRECTORY. The college year begins on the second Monday in August and ends with the college year at Berkeley. There is a recess of three weeks in December. The exercises are held in the Old Hall of Pioneers, 808 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The classes meet daily at 8:15 a.m., and 4:45 p.m. The address of the Dean is 808 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The office of the Registrar is Room 620, Parrott (Emporium) Building, San Francisco. ADMISSION. Applicants for admission to the Junior class must be at least eighteen years of age; must deposit with the Registrar a certificate of good moral character; and must present satisfactory certificates or pass examinations in the following subjects:* 1. English. The examination in this subject will presuppose thorough acquaintance with the following works, together with the practical knowledge of grammar and elementary rhetoric implied in such acquaintance: (1) The Lady of the Lake; (2) The Alhambra; (3) Sir Roger de Coverley; (4) Classic Myths; (5) Short Poems: Horatius, The Deserted Village, The Cotter's Saturday Night, The Prisoner of Chillon (or selections from Childe Harold), Winter, Winter Morning Walk, Snow-bound, Tam O'Shanter, The Ancient Mariner, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; (6) The Merchant of Venice; (7) Julius Caesar; (8) Macaulay's Warren Hastings. While the regular examination will, for the present, be upon these subjects without option, schools on the accredited list of the University may, after consultation with the English department, make such substitutions as the following: For (1), The Lay of the Last Minstrel; for (2), Tom Brown at Rugby, or Ivanhoe; for (3), Addison's Select Essays; for (5), some twelve poems of similar scope and character; for (6) or for (7), Macbeth. 2. Arithmetic. No examination in this subject is required, since the study comes regularly in the Grammar School, and its essential processes are involved in Algebra. 3. Algebra. Through quadratic equations; namely, the various methods of factoring, the theory of exponents, integral and fractional, positive and negative, the calculus of radicals, ratio, and proportion; quadratic equations, both single and simultaneous, their solution and their theory, including all the recognized methods of solution, all equations reducible to the quadratic form and the formation of equations from given roots. 4. Plane Geometry. Including the general properties of regular polygons, their construction, perimeters, and areas, and the different methods for determining the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. *Subjects are numbered to correspond with those of the general list of preparatory subjects for admission to the Colleges at Berkeley. The valuation of the subjects is as given in the General List of Preparatory Subjects in this Register. 5. Government of the United States. A knowledge of the principles of government, Federal, State, and local. This requirement presupposes an acquaintance with the history of the United States 6. Latin. (a) Caesar, Gallic War, books I-IV; (b) Elementary Latin Grammar: forms and syntax; (c) translation into Latin of simple English sentences. While the regular examination will be confined to the books of Caesar, teachers of approved ability, in schools on the accredited list of the University, may, after consultation with the Latin Department, substitute any ten* Biographies of Nepos for two books of the Gallic War. 7. Latin. (a) Translation of Latin of average difficulty. The ability to do this will ordinarily be secured by careful reading of (1) Cicero, the four orations against Catiline, and the orations Pro Archia Poeta, De Imperio Cn. Pompei, and (2) Virgil, Eneid, books I-VI. There should also be training in (3) sight reading from other parts of these authors or from other authors. Applicants must also be prepared to answer questions in both (1) and (2) on the implied grammar, the subject-matter, and the corresponding archaeology, and, in the ease of Virgil, on the (4) prosody. (b) Translation into Latin of brief connected narrative. Teachers of approved ability, in schools on the accredited list, may, after consultation with the Latin Department, substitute for a part of a1), of Subject Seven, namely, III and IV orations against Catiline or the oration De Imperio Cn. Pompei, certain other orations of Cieero; and for a part of Subject Seven, a (2), certain books of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 13. Mediæval and Modern History. Myers' Medieval and Modern History will indicate the period to be covered and the amount required. The examinations are held at the times and places announced for holding the entrance examinations to the colleges at Berkeley. Applicants for admission will not be examined at any other time, unless for reasons of the most exceptional urgency. Further information concerning the examinations can be obtained from the RECORDER OF THE FACULTIES of the University of California, Berkeley, California. Graduates of the University of California are admitted without examination. Persons holding degrees from other reputable institutions of learning are also admitted without examination. Graduates of accredited high schools and private schools of this State, who are *But Roberts' edition of nine lives of Nepos will be accepted. eligible for admission to the University upon certificate, and whose certificates cover the requirements for admission to the College of the Law, are admitted without examination. Applicants for admission to the Middle class must be at least nineteen years of age; must comply with the conditions required for admission to the Junior class; and must pass an examination in all the studies of the Junior year. Applicants for admission to the Senior class must be at least twenty years of age; must comply with the conditions required for admission to the Junior class; and must pass an examination in all the studies of the Junior and the Middle years. Members of the bar may, at the discretion of the Dean, be admitted as special students. Applications for admission and certificates of good moral character must be filed with the Registrar of the College of the Law, prior to examination. No applicant for admission to either the Middle class or the Senior class will be examined for admission at any other time than at the regular examinations at the end and at the beginning of the college year. Further information can be obtained by addressing either the Dean or the Registrar. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. The object of the College of the Law is to give such instruction in the principles of our jurisprudence as will furnish preparation for the practice of the profession of the law in this country. Particular attention is directed from time to time to the codes and the general statutes of this State. The courses of instruction extend over a period of three years, and are as follows: Contracts. JUNIOR YEAR. Assistant Professor OLNEY. Harriman on Contracts; Huffcut & Woodruff's American Cases on Contracts. 2 hrs., throughout the year. Quasi-Contracts. Keener on Quasi-Contracts. 2 hrs., second half. Assistant Professor OLNEY. Property. Assistant Professor BOSLEY. Williams on Real Property; Tiedeman's Cases on Real Property; Kent's Commentaries, Part VI; Darlington's Williams on Personal Property, and assigned cases. May's Criminal Law; Beale's Cases on Criminal Law. 2 hrs., during a portion of the year. Sales of Personal Property. Williston's Cases on Sales. 2 hrs., during a portion of the year. Bailments, Carriers, and Telegraphs. Assistant Professor OLNEY. Professor SLACK. Lawson on Bailments; McClain's Cases on Carriers; assigned 2 hrs., throughout the year. Negotiable Instruments. Assistant Professor OLNEY. Bigelow on Bills and Notes; Bigelow's Cases on Bills and Notes. 2 hrs., during a portion of the year. Insurance. Assistant Professor OLNEY. Richard's Treatise and Cases on Insurance. 2 hrs., during a portion of the year. |