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EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREE.
The degree of Bachelor of Law is conferred upon those students who manifest
an intimate acquaintance with all of the subjects embraced in the course,
evidenced by successfully passing all the written examinations, intermediate
the Moot Court, or other assigned, work.
The rule formerly prevailing in this department required applicants for
the degree to attend the lectures in all the classes, and to stand all the regular
written examinations on every subject in the course, during the year of
their candidacy, without credit for any class completed in a previous year—except
in the class of Constitutional and International Law. With the beginning
of the session of 1895-'96 a radical departure was inaugurated, by permitting
a candidate to complete a portion of the course in one session and the
remainder the following session, without requiring attendance upon the lectures,
or further examination, in such classes as he may have previously completed.
But a re-examination in the work of a previous year may be required,
whenever, in any case, it may be deemed proper.
Two written examinations, an intermediate and a final, are held in
each class (save in that of Criminal Law, in which a single examination is
held at the close of the session), making fifteen examinations in the entire
course—seven in the first and eight in the second year.
The general policy of the University is to permit students to elect their
own work, and to give them due credit for its satisfactory completion, without
regard to the time devoted to it. There is, therefore, no positive rule
forbidding students to undertake the whole course in a single year, or withholding
from them the degree in case of its successful completion. But the
student is warned that even though he may have had exceptional legal training
he can scarcely hope to complete the course in a single year; and if by
extreme diligence and industry he should succeed in the effort, he is apt to
find that he has acquired more than he has been able to digest.
The fact is emphasized that since the reorganization of the Department
and the very considerable enlargement of the course of study, it is practically
impossible to complete the work, as had not been unusual before, in a
single year. Students who can attend but a single session are earnestly
advised to take special courses, which the arrangements of the classes readily
permit.
No entrance examinations are held, and no advanced standing can be secured
by certificates of work accomplished at other law schools—the whole course must
be completed here.
Candidates who attain a standard of seventy-five per centum in any Junior
class, but who fail to reach the minimum grade required for graduation
(eighty-three per centum), are entitled, after matriculation, to stand an examination
at the beginning of the following session on the subjects comprised
in the class or classes in which they have so failed, and to receive the same
enable the earnest student to make up during the summer any deficiency of
the previous year, and to go forward with his second year's course, unhampered
by work brought over from his first year.
Candidates for the degree, who in any session have less than one full year's
course to complete, may be required to take such additional work, and to
stand such additional examinations, as may be prescribed.
Seats in the Law Lecture-room are assigned in the order of matriculation.
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