HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW. DIRECTORS. HON. WILLIAM H. BEATTY, Sacramento, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex officio President of the Board. THOMAS I. BERGIN, Esq., Vice-President... OLIVER P. EVANS, ESQ. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Francisco. San Mateo. San Francisco. San Francisco. FACULTY. MARTIN KELLOGG, President of the University, President. E. W. MCKINSTRY, Professor of Law. CHARLES W. SLACK, Dean and Professor of Law. J. H. C. BONTÉ, Professor of Legal Ethics. LEONARD STONE, Registrar. CALENDAR AND DIRECTORY. The college year begins and ends with the college year at Berkeley. There is a recess of two weeks in December. The exercises are held in the Old Hall of Pioneers, 808 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The classes meet daily: the Senior class, at 4:45 P. M.; the Middle class, at 8:15 A. M. and 5:00 P. M.; the Junior Class, at 8:15 A. M. and 4:00 P. M. The office of the Registrar is Room 17, ninth floor, Mills Building, San Francisco. REQUIREMENTS FOR 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 pass a satisfactory examination in the following subjects: 1. ENGLISH. The examination in this subject will presuppose thorough knowledge of grammar and elementary rhetoric; practice in composition; and a study of the following works: (1) The Lady of the Lake; (2) Gayley's Classic Myths in English Literature (Ginn & Co.), or Bulfinch's Age of Fable; (3) The Alhambra; (4) Sir Roger de Coverley (the full series, as published by Cassell or the American Book Co.); (5) Short Poems: The Prisoner of Chillon, The Deserted Village, Snow-Bound, The Cotter's Saturday Night, The Traveller, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner*; (6) The Merchant of Venice; (7) Julius Cæsar; (8) Macaulay's Warren Hastings. While the regular examination will, for the present, be upon these subjects without option, teachers of approved ability in schools on the accredited list of the University may, after consultation with the English department of the University, avail themselves of such substitutes as the following: For (1), The Lay of the Last Minstrel; for (3), Tom Brown at Rugby; for (4), Addison's Select Essays (Allyn and Bacon); for (5), some twelve poems of similar scope and character selected from Syle's From Milton to Tennyson (Allyn and Bacon); for (6) or for (7), Macbeth. 2. ALGEBRA. Through quadratic equations; namely, the various methods of factoring, the theory of exponents, integral and fractional, positive and negative, and 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 and all equations reducible to the quadratic form and the formation of equations from given roots. 3. 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. 4. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A knowledge of the principles of government, whether Federal, State, or local. This requirement presupposes an acquaintance with the history of the United States. 5. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Gardiner's Student's History will indicate the amount required. 6. LATIN. Cæsar, Gallic War, books 1.-IV. (or Civil War, books 1.-11.); Cicero, the four Catilinarian Orations; with questions, in both cases, on the implied grammar, the subject-matter, and the corresponding archæology; translation into Latin of simple English sentences. BEGINNING WITH MAY, 1896, Subject 6 will include the following: Cicero, the Orations Pro Archia Poeta and Pro Lege Manilia; Virgil, Æneid, books I.-VI. ; with questions, in both cases, on the implied grammar, the subject-matter, and the corresponding archæology, and, in the case of Virgil, on the prosody; sight translation of easy Latin prose; translation into Latin of brief connected narratives. * In and after 1896 the English poems of this list will be selected from Syle's From Milton to Tennyson. 11 Graduates of the University of California will be admitted without exami nation. Graduates of other institutions of learning may also, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, be admitted without examination. The examinations will be held at the times and places announced for holding the entrance examinations to the undergraduate departments of the University. Applicants for admission will not be examined at any other time, unless for reasons of the most exceptional urgency. Information concerning the examinations can be obtained from the RECORDEr of the FACULTIES, Berkeley. Prior to examination, applicants must file applications for admission, and certificate of good moral character, with the Registrar of the College of the Law. Applicants for admission to the Middle class must be at least nineteen years of age; must comply with the conditions required to enter 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 to enter the Junior class; and must pass an examination in all the studies of the Junior and Middle years. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. The following constitute the prescribed courses in the Hastings College of the Law: 8. Sales of Personal Property. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Middle year. Professor SLACK. 9. Bailments, Carriers, and Telegraphs. Professor SLACK. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Middle year. 10. Negotiable Instruments. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Middle year. Professor SLACK. 15. Wills and Administrations. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Middle year. Professor SLACK. 16. Equity Jurisprudence. Professor MCKINSTRY. 17. Pleading and Practice. Professor SLACK. 18. Evidence. Professor SLACK. 19. Constitutional Law. Professor McKINSTRY. 20. Legal Ethics. Professor BONTE. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Senior year. 4 hrs., during Senior year. 2 hrs., second term, Senior year. 2 hrs., during a portion of the Senior year. A course of eight or ten lectures to the Senior Class. Outline of Studies. The courses of instruction extend over a period of three years. All three systems of legal instruction are used; namely, a study of text-books, an examination of illustrative cases, and lectures. The purpose of the courses is to acquaint the student with the fundamental principles of the law, and to combine, so far as it is possible to do so, theoretical knowledge with its practical application. Particular attention is directed from time to time to the provisions of the codes and statutes of California. JUNIOR YEAR. In the Junior year, the general principles constituting the framework of the law in its most important departments of primary or substantive rights and duties, are considered, embracing the law of persons, the law of property, the law of contracts, the law of torts, and criminal law. The following books are used during this year: Blackstone's Commentaries; Kent's Commentaries; Schouler's Domestic Relations; Paige's Cases on Domestic Relations; Keener's Selections on Contracts; Tiedeman on Real Property; Darlington's Williams on Personal Property; Bigelow on Torts; Chase's Cases on Torts; May's Criminal Law; Beale's Cases on Criminal Law; Penal Code of California. MIDDLE YEAR. The greater portion of the Middle year is devoted to the technical study of the following important subjects: Quasi-contracts; sales of personal property; bailments, carriers, and telegraphs; negotiable instruments; insurance; agency; partnership and corporations. The remainder of the time is devoted to the study of the law of wills, and the administration of the estates of decedents. The following books are used: Keener on Quasi-Contracts; Benjamin on Sales; Schouler on Bailments; McClain's Cases on Carriers; Bigelow on Bills and Notes; Bigelow's Cases on Bills and Notes; Richards on Insurance; Story on Agency; Parsons on Partnership; Morawitz on Corporations; Chaplin on Wills; and the Code of Civil Procedure of California, under the title, "Proceedings in the Probate Court." SENIOR YEAR. The principal work of the Senior year is on pleading, practice, and evidence. Special attention is given to the preparation of pleadings and other papers. The subjects of equity jurisprudence and constitutional law are considered during this year. The text-books used are: Stephen on Pleading; Lubé on Equity Pleading; Bliss on Code Pleading; Code of Civil Procedure of California; Chamberlayne's Best on Evidence; Thayer's Cases on Evidence; Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence; Pomeroy's Constitutional Law. MOOT COURT. A Moot Court is established as a regular mode of instruction. Attendance is made compulsory upon the members of the Senior class. A member of the Faculty presides over the argument of each cause, and an opinion is written under his direction by some student. LIBRARY. There is no library connected with the College, but students are permitted to use the San Francisco Law Library, at the New City Hall, on the same terms as members of the bar. EXAMINATIONS. Examinations are held from time to time during the year, and on the year's work at the end of the year. PRIVILEGES ON GRADUATION. Students who complete the prescribed courses, receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and are admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State, on motion, without examination. |