N. B.- In each case the price is for the whole room from the beginning of the academic year until the next Commencement, and includes the daily care of the room. Applications for rooms should be made as early as possible after April 1, in order that a choice may be secured. The Bursar may cancel the assignment of a room to any student who does not take possession of it on or before the first day of October. Furthur information will be furnished, if desired, on application to ROBERT S. MORISON, Secretary of the Faculty. THE LAW SCHOOL. The Law School was established in 1817, and is the oldest of the law schools now existing in the United States. From 1839 to 1870 the curriculum was two years, or four terms, but the lectures of one year were not given in the other year. Few persons took the full course, the degree of BACHELOR OF LAWS being conferred upon all persons who were members of the School for eighteen months, or three terms. In 1870 the course prescribed for the degree was lengthened to two years, and all the subjects of each year were taught every year. The present three years' course dates from 1877. There were no examinations for the degree until June, 1871, and none for admission until 1877. Special Students were admitted without examination as late as 1893. In the year 1896-97, the rule came into force by which only graduates of approved colleges and persons qualified to enter the Senior Class of Harvard College were admitted as regular students. Under the present rule, adopted in 1899, only graduates of approved colleges (see below) will be admitted as regular students. DANE HALL, the first building erected for the use of the Law School, was completed in 1832, and enlarged in 1845. AUSTIN HALL, the present home of the School, standing in Holmes Place, Cambridge, was finished in 1883. THE FACULTY OF LAW. CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, A.M., LL.D., PRESIDENT. JAMES BARR AMES, LL.D., DEAN, and Dane Professor of Law. JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY, LL.D., Royall Professor of Law. JOSEPH DODDRIDGE BRANNAN, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Law. EUGENE WAMBAUGH, LL.D., Langdell Professor of Law. EDWARD HENRY STROBEL, A.B., LL.B., Bemis Professor of International Law. JOSEPH HENRY BEALE, Jr., LL.D., Bussey Professor of Law. JENS IVERSON WESTENGARD, A.M., LL.B., Assistant Professor of Law. JAMES COOLIDGE CARTER, LL.D., Lecturer on the Origin, Growth, and Function of Law. SAMUEL HUDSON HOLLIS, A.B., LL.B., Lecturer on Insurance. IRVAH LESTER WINTER, A.B., Assistant Professor of Elocution. JOHN HIMES ARNOLD, A.M., Librarian. CHARLES FRANCIS DORR BELDEN, LL.B., Assistant Librarian. FREDERIC LOUIS FISCHER, A.B., Secretary. ADMISSION OF STUDENTS. Persons wishing to enter the Law School as First-Year Students or as Special Students must register between Commencement Day and the first day of November following. The following persons will be admitted without examination as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws: 1. Graduates of colleges of high grade* upon producing their diplomas. 2. Graduates of other colleges upon producing their diplomas together with an official certificate that they ranked in the first third of the class on the work of the Senior year. Special Students. The following persons will be admitted as Special Students: I. Holders of academic degrees in Arts, Literature, Philosophy or Science who are not admissible as candidates for a degree. II. Graduates of Law Schools which confer the degree only after an examination upon a three years' course of at least eight months in each year. III. Persons who have never received a degree, but who have attained the age of twenty-one years, will, in rare instances, be admitted as Special Students by special vote of the Faculty. Those who wish to enter by such a vote should make application to the Secretary not later than the first day of May, stating the circumstances which prevented them from receiving a college education, and giving their age, their previous mental * The list of selected colleges, which has appeared in previous catalogues, has been revised, but will not be published hereafter. Graduates who wish to know whether their college is on the revised list are advised to communicate with the Secretary of the Law Faculty. training, their occupation, if any, and the name of two persons familiar with their character, ability, and attainments. Those applicants whose record seems to the Faculty sufficiently promising will be admitted to the School upon passing, in September, satisfactory examinations in Blackstone, in the translation from standard Latin and French prose authors, and in the rendering of passages of easy English prose into Latin and French. Advanced Standing. Any person who, after becoming entitled to enter this School as a regular student, has been in regular attendance for at least one academic year of not less than eight months at another law school having a three years' course for its degree, will be admitted to the Second-Year class upon passing satisfactorily, in June, the annual examinations in the studies of the First Year. This examination will require a thorough knowledge of the following books: Gray's Cases on Property, vols. 1, 2; Williston's Cases on Contracts; Cases on Torts: Ames, vol. 1 (2d ed.), and Smith, vol. 2; Beale's Cases on Criminal Law; Ames's Cases on Pleading. The examination is by printed questions, which the candidates answer in writing in the presence of the examiner. PROGRAMME OF INSTRUCTION. The design of this School is to afford such a training in the fundamental principles of English and American Law as will constitute the best preparation for the practice of the profession in any place where that system of law prevails. With this view, the programme of study, which is designed to occupy the student three full years, will comprise the following subjects: FIRST YEAR. Contracts. Professor WILLISTON and Asst. Professor WYMAN. Three hours a week. Williston's Cases on Contracts. Criminal Law and Procedure. Professor BEALE. Two hours a week. Beale's Cases on Criminal Law. Property. Professor WAMBAUGH. Two hours a week. Gray's Cases on Torts. Professor SMITH. Two hours a week. Cases on Torts: Ames, vol. 1 (2d ed.); Smith, vol. 2. Civil Procedure at Common Law. Professor AMES. Two hours a week in the second half-year. Ames's Cases on Pleading (2d ed.). SECOND YEAR. Two hours a week. Wambaugh's Agency. Professor WAMBaugh. Cases on Agency. Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. Professor BRAannan. Two hours a week. Ames's Cases on Bills and Notes. Evidence. Professor GRAY. Two hours a week. Thayer's Cases on Evidence (2d ed.). -Jurisdiction and Procedure in Equity. Asst. Professor Warren. Two hours a week. Ames's Cases in Equity Jurisdiction, vol. 1. Property. Professor BEALE and Asst. Professor WARREN. Two hours a week. Gray's Cases on Property, vols. 3, 4. Carriers. Asst. Professor WYMAN. One hour a week. Beale and Wyman's Cases on Public Service Companies. [Contracts. Two hours a week in the second half-year.] Omitted in 1904-05. Damages. Professor BRANNAN. One hour a week. Beale's Cases on Damages. Law of Persons. Professor SMITH. One hour a week. Smith's Cases on Persons. [Quasi-Contracts. Two hours a week in the first half-year.] Omitted in 1904-05. Conflict of Laws. Professor BEALE. THIRD YEAR. Two hours a week. Beale's One hour a week. Thayer's Two hours a week. Smith's Cases on the Conflict of Laws. Constitutional Law. Professor WAMBAUGH. Cases on Constitutional Law. Corporations. Asst. Professor WARREN. Cases on Private Corporations (2d ed.); Smith's Cases on Municipal Insurance Marine, Fire, and Life. Mr. HOLLIS. Two hours a week in the second half-year. Wambaugh's Cases on Insurance. |
