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MOOT COURT.

A Moot Court is organized by the students in the First Year's
course for the discussion of legal questions. Its meetings begin at the
opening and continue to the end of the session, with such interruptions
only as are incident to the proximity of the examinations. Attendance
is voluntary, as presence during the debates is intended to be a privilege
and not a burden. But every candidate for the degree is required to argue
at least one case in the Moot Court, and to hand in a carefully prepared
brief of his argument, with a digest of the authorities relied on. The
questions are chosen by the Law Faculty, one or more of whom preside
over the discussions. Interest and life are added to the proceedings by
the open debate held after the argument, the presiding judge acting as
interlocutor, and leading into the debate those whom diffidence prompts
to silence.

The following gentlemen served as officers of the Moot Court during
the session of 1906-1907:

       

Associate Judges	Herbert M. Peck, Beaver Dam, Wis.
	Russell L. Bradford, Norfolk, Va.
Clerks	Robert N. Wilkin, New Philadelphia, Ohio.
	Joseph A. Harvey, Providence, R. I.