 | The University of Virginia record February, 1908 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D., | President. |
| WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL. D.,[3] | Dean. |
| CHARLES ALFRED GRAVES, M. A., LL. D., | Professor of the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Civil Procedure. |
| WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL. D., | Professor of the Law of Persons, Mercantile Law, Corporations, and Equity. |
| RALEIGH COLSTON MINOR, M. A., LL. B.,[4] | Professor of the Law of Real Property, and Public Law. |
| ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M. A., LL. B., | Adjunct Professor of the Law of Persons, Mercantile Law, Corporations, and Equity.[5] |
| CASSIUS MONCURE CHICHESTER, B. A., LL. B., | Instructor in Law. |
| ALEXANDER STUART ROBERTSON, B. A., LL. B., | Instructor in Law. |
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
Among the original schools contemplated in Mr. Jefferson's plan for the
organization of the University of Virginia was "Law: Municipal and
Foreign; Embracing the General Principles, Theory, and Practice of
Jurisprudence, together with the Theory and Principles of Constitutional
Government." Accordingly the School of Law was established in 1826,
and has been in continous operation since, even during the four years of
the civil war. The aim of the Department of Law has always been to maintain
a high standard as a requirement for graduation—the degree being
conferred only upon such students as are thorough masters of the prescribed
course of study. This policy has been rigorously enforced, and its
of the law school are accustomed to attain at the bar or in public life. The
course of instruction has been extended from time to time to conform to
changing conditions and to meet the increasing needs of the profession.
It is confidently believed that the enlarged course now offered will enable
those who complete it more surely to maintain that rank at the bar which
the University has always expected of her sons.
Formerly it was possible for the law student to begin and complete his
professional studies in the office of some friendly member of the bar—
Blackstone's Commentaries and the Code of his State forming the main
portion of his curriculum. Then the authorities were few, the leading
principles alone were settled, and their application was comparatively
simple. In more recent times, so widened is the scope of the law, so complex
its principles, so nice and yet so important its distinctions, so numerous
and conflicting the authorities, that it is scarcely practicable for even the
most diligent student to master the subject, in its multiform phases, without
the systematic instruction of skilled teachers. Furthermore, the increased
and increasing scope and rigor of the examinations for admission
to the bar in the several States call for a more extensive course of study
than was afforded in former days by the law school, and a wider and more
intimate knowledge of legal principles than can generally be acquired by
private study.
These considerations have led to a general conviction among the
leaders of professional thought throughout the country that no student
should essay the practice of the law who has not spent at least two years in
close and attentive study in a law school. Indeed, the decided tendency
is toward requiring even a longer period of study, as essential either to
graduation or to admission to the bar.
Required for Entrance upon the Work of the Department.—The
General Entrance Examination, or admission to the University by
certificate or diploma, as stated in a preceding portion of this catalogue,
pp. 70-85. For exemption from this rule in the case of Special
Students not candidates for the degree in Law, see p. 84. All candidates
for the degree must have attained the age of eighteen before
entering the Law School.
Course of Study.—The course is planned with a view to acquaint
the student familiarly and practically with the principles of his profession.
Care is taken to teach him to think for himself, and to rely
upon reason and principle, rather than upon memory; it being considered
better that the student follow principle to its legitimate conclusion,
though this be at variance with the decisions of the courts,
than that he should arrive at a faultless result by the exercise of
memory or by accident.
The instruction is as thorough as possible, and is given partly through
text-books and partly through lectures (on some subjects with the addition
daily quiz has long been a marked and, as experience has proved, a most
valuable feature of the system of instruction. As cross-examination exposes
error and develops truth, so the daily quiz enables the instructor to
discover and rectify misconceptions of legal principles on the part of the
student.
The course occupies two years, and it is not permissible to apply for
graduation in less time. Indeed, since future professional success depends
upon complete mastery of elementary principles, it is not advisable for the
student to devote less time to preparation for practice, even though he be
not a candidate for graduation. It is a maxim sanctioned by long and wide
experience that "he who is not a good lawyer when he comes to the bar, will
seldom be a good one afterwards." In order to acquire such thorough knowledge
of the elements of the law, thought as well as reading is requisite; and,
for the purpose of thought, there must be time to digest as well as industry
to acquire. One cannot gorge himself with legal principles and digest
them afterwards; the process of assimilation, if it is to proceed healthfully
and beneficially, must accompany the reception of knowledge.
Arrangement of Classes.—The course of instruction in the Department
of Law comprises twelve separate classes. Six of these
classes constitute the first year's studies, and six the studies of the
second year.
In the work of each year, there are nine lectures a week. The lectures
occupy an hour and a half each, so that each year's course demands thirteen
and a half hours of class-work each week, besides the work of the
Moot and Practice courts.
The following table exhibits an outline of the course:
1. The Law of Persons; Personal Property (including
Sales); Wills of Personalty, and Administration.2. The Law of Contracts.
3. The Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
4. Mercantile Law: Negotiable Paper; Partnership; Insurance.
5. Torts, Bailments, and Carriers.
6. Theory of Government; Constitutional Law; International
Law.
[6] First Year
7. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure; Bankruptcy.
8. Pleading and Practice in Civil Cases.
9. The Law of Real Property.
10. The Law of Corporations.
11. The Law of Evidence.
12. Conflict of Laws.
Second Year
The first year Law Course may be substituted for certain electives in the
College by candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
FIRST YEAR COURSE.
1. Law of Persons; Personal Property; Wills and
Administration.
Professor Lile.
Adj. Prof. Dobie (1907-'08).
The preliminary lectures in this class are devoted to the nature,
sources and evidences of the law; the absolute and relative rights of persons,
and their constitutional guaranties; citizenship and naturalization;
and subordinate magistrates. This is followed by a thorough drill in the
subjects of principal and agent; husband and wife, including their common
law property rights, with the modern statutory modifications; parent and
child; and guardian and ward. Later, the study of the law of personal
property (including the law of sales) is pursued in its various phases,
followed by that of wills, of personalty and administration. Under the
latter classification are included the execution of wills; the qualification of
personal representatives and the settlement of their accounts; the law of
legacies and of distribution; and the complete administration of estates.—
September 14 to February 27—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Long's Domestic Relations; Mechem's Principles of Agency; Rood
on Wills; R. M. Benjamin's Principles of Sales (2d ed.); The Professor's Printed
Notes.
2. The Law of Contracts.
Professor Graves.
In this class, coming appropriately at the beginning of the Junior year,
an effort is made to give a thorough, though elementary, course in the
fundamentals of contract law—the formation, operation, and discharge of
contracts—with a full discussion of the doctrine of consideration, the requirements
of the Statute of Frauds, and the consequences of the various
kinds of illegality, whether at common law or by statute. The important
subject of Quasi-Contract also receives adequate attention. The textbook
on Contracts (Clark, following the analysis of Anson) is accompanied
by a volume of Illustrative Cases, and is supplemented by the Professor's
Printed Notes, explaining obscurities in the text, and calling attention to
the recent cases in Virginia and elsewhere.—September 14 to December 23
—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Clark on Contracts (2d ed.); Hopkins's Cases on Contracts; The
Professor's Printed Notes.
3. The Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Professor Minor.
In the study of this subject the student is made familiar with the
general principles enforced by the courts in the administration of criminal
justice. He is instructed as to the nature and elements of the more important
crimes, both common law and statutory. Attention is given rather
to the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of the leading principles than
to the less important details, which, with a knowledge of the former, may
readily be acquired. The course of instruction further embraces a study
of the forms of procedure, the nature, organization and duties of the
courts, and of grand and petit juries; arrests and bail; indictments, presentments,
informations, and the various defenses, by way of demurrer,
plea, or otherwise; together with the ordinary incidents of a criminal trial,
such as challenges of jurors, motions for a new trial, bills of exceptions,
motions in arrest of judgment, and writs of error.
The last lectures of this course are devoted to the practical work of
drawing indictments, pleas in abatement and other criminal pleading, and
the making of motions for new trial, in arrest of judgment, etc.—September
14 to January 20—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Clark's Criminal Law; Beale's Criminal Pleading and Practice;
The Professor's Notes.
4. Mercantile Law.
Professor Lile.
Adj. Prof. Dobie (1907-'08).
Under this head are grouped the subjects of Negotiable Instruments,
Insurance, and Partnership. The instruction is made as practical as
possible, by frequent use of the various mercantile instruments, as exhibits,
in the course of the lectures. In the study of the law of negotiable paper,
constant reference is made to the Negotiable Instruments Law, recently
enacted in many States, including Virginia, and likely to be adopted
throughout the country. In addition to the study of the general principles
of the law of insurance, attention is devoted to particular clauses most
usual in life, marine, and accident policies, and the New York Standard
fire policy is studied, clause by clause, in the light of judicial construction.—February
27 to end of session—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Bigelow on Bills, Notes, and Cheques (Student's Series—2d ed.);
Vance on Insurance; Mechem on Partnership; The Negotiable Instruments Law;
The Professor's Notes.
5. Torts, Bailments, and Carriers.
Professor Graves.
The Law of Torts (or Non-Contract Law) is first taken up, and after
a full discussion of the General Principles underlying the subject, the
given to Personal Injuries by Negligence, Employers' Liability Acts (State
and Federal), and statutes concerning Death by Wrongful Act, Neglect,
or Default. In connection with the text-book, a volume of cases is used,
which serve to illustrate and impress the abstract principles by concrete
examples.
On the completion of Torts, the subject of bailments is entered upon,
and after an outline of the doctrines concerning the several kinds of
Bailees (including Innkeepers), the Law of Carriers (of goods and passengers)
is begun, and is considered with the fulness and thoroughness
due to this important topic. The recent legislation of Congress as to
carriers engaged in Inter-State Commerce is carefully considered.— From
January 3 to end of the session—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Cooley on Torts (Lewis's Students' Ed., 1907); Chase's Cases on
Torts (ad ed.); Hutchinson on Carriers (2d ed.); The Professor's Notes.
6. Theory of Government; Constitutional Law;
International Law.
Professor Minor.
The first lectures of this course are devoted to the Theory and Practice
of Government. It is traced from its generally accepted origin—the
family—through its various stages to the modern forms, and effort is
made by reasoning and comparison to point out the benefits of good
government, the dangers of the bad.
This is followed by Constitutional Law, in the study of which close
attention is given to the judicial interpretation of the Federal Constitution,
and to the great constitutional principles prevailing throughout the
Union. As occasion demands, attention is called to the policy of various
acts of legislation, and the student is warned against such as tend to exceed
the limits of safe and constitutional restrictions. The checks and balances
of the constitution are pointed out, and by comparing it with other constitutions,
notably that of England, its weak as well as strong points are
developed. Especial attention is given to such important subjects as ex
post facto laws, laws impairing the obligation of contracts, due process of
law, trial by jury, the power of taxation and of eminent domain, the police
power, interstate commerce, etc.
In the lectures upon Public International Law are considered the
various rules which regulate the intercourse of one nation with another—
such as the principles governing the origin, recognition, and equality of
States; their rights in time of peace, and the means whereby they peaceably
procure the enjoyment of those rights; the laws of war, and the
neutral and belligerent States.—January 20 to May 7—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Cooley's Principles of Constitutional Law (3d ed.); Davis' International
Law (2d ed.); The Professor's Notes.
SECOND YEAR COURSE.
7. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure; Bankruptcy.
Professor Lile.
Adj. Prof. Dobie (1907-'08).
After consideration of the origin and rise of the chancery jurisdiction,
the student is led carefully through the usual subjects of equitable cognizance,
and thence into the methods of procedure, as recognized in the
High Court of Chancery in England, and as modified by statute or by rules
of court in America. The contrast between legal and equitable principles
and procedure is constantly adverted to, and the student is incited to the
appreciation and cultivation of the fine sense of moral right underlying the
doctrines of technical equity. The procedure in the Federal courts of
chancery and in the Chancery courts of Virginia (where the distinction
between legal and equitable procedure is still maintained) is made the
basis of instruction. Practical work is required in draughting the various
forms and pleadings, from the subpœna to the final decree.
In the law of Bankruptcy, sufficient instruction is given to afford to
the student a fair working knowledge of general principles, and effort is
made to secure as great familiarity as possible with the specific provisions
of the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898, and the prescribed rules of procedure
thereunder.—September 14 to February 1—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Merwin's Equity; Text-books on Equity Practice and Bankruptcy
(to be announced); The Professor's Notes.
8. Pleading and Practice.
Professor Graves.
In this class the subjects are Pleading and Practice at common law,
and under the Virginia Statutes; and Federal Jurisprudence and Procedure.
These are all confined to civil cases at law; criminal procedure and
equity jurisdiction and procedure being taught elsewhere in the course.
An outline of the instruction in this class may be given as follows:
(1) The principles and rules of pleading at common law—an intimate
acquaintance with the common law rules and principles being insisted
upon as essential to a proper knowledge of pleading under any system.
(2) The organization and jurisdiction of the Virginia courts, and
the proceedings in a law suit from beginning to end, including appellate
proceedings; and the law of attachments, executions, homestead exemptions,
etc.
(3) The organization and jurisdiction of the Federal courts; removal
of causes from State to Federal courts; the conformity or non-conformity
of the procedure at law in the Federal courts with that in the courts of
the State wherein they are held; and appellate proceedings in the Federal
courts.—September 14 to March 8—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Andrews's Stephen on Pleading; Hughes's Jurisdiction and Procedure
of the United States Courts; The Professor's Printed Notes on Pleading, and
Printed Questions; Burks's Printed Notes on Pleading.
9. The Law of Real Property.
Professor Minor.
The instruction in this class covers a detailed and careful study of the
subject of Real Property Law, in all its branches. The nature and several
kinds of real estate, and the various interests therein, with the principles
appertaining to each, curtesy and dower, the relations of landlord and
tenant, co-tenancies, the feudal tenures and principles, uses and trusts, the
far-reaching effects of the Statute of Uses, the conditions, covenants, and
other qualifications attached to conveyances of land, are reviewed at
length. The historical connection between ancient and modern doctrines of
conveyancing, with the statutory changes, are carefully traced. Remainders,
reversions, and executory limitations, and the principles governing
their creation, validity, and effect, together with the sources of title to
lands, whether by descent or by the manifold forms of purchase, and the
principles controlling each, the subjects of conveyances, contracts to convey,
wills of lands, adverse possession, the registry of instruments of
title, and the principles regulating the acquisition and validity of tax-titles,
are investigated in detail.
Throughout this course, emphasis is placed on common law principles,
and effort is made to give the student a clear comprehension of these, by
tracing them to their feudal or other sources, and by following them into
the modern forms they have assumed under the guiding hand of courts and
legislatures.
Several lectures are devoted to the practical drafting of deeds, contracts,
and wills, as these subjects are presented.—September 14 to March
25—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
10. The Law of Corporations.
Professor Lile.
Adj. Prof. Dobie (1907-'08).
In view of the modern development of the law of corporations, both
in extent and importance, increasing attention is devoted to this branch of
the curriculum. Among other subjects of lesser import, the lectures
the formation and enforcement of subscriptions for shares; corporate
duties, powers, and liabilities; the relations between the corporation
and the State, between the corporate body and its shareholders, officers,
agents, and creditors, and the reciprocal relations of these with one
another; the consolidation, dissolution, and winding up of corporations;
and the appointment, duties, and powers of receivers. The principles
applicable to municipal corporations, whether in their public or their
proprietary characters, are fully elucidated; the subjects of municipal taxation,
municipal bonds, franchises, rights and liabilities in connection with
streets, as affecting the municipality, the public generally, and the abutting
proprietors, are dealt with in detail.—February 1 to end of session—Three
times a week.
Text-Books.—Marshall on Corporations; Clephane on Business Corporations—
their Organization and Management; The Professor's Printed Notes on Private Corporations;
The Professor's Printed Notes on Municipal Corporations.
11. The Law of Evidence.
Professor Graves.
The principles of this subject are sought to be elucidated by the aid of
the latest and most philosophical expositions of evidence, notably those of
the late Professor James B. Thayer, of Harvard University, to whose
work, "A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law," constant
reference is made. The text-book used—Volume I of Greenleaf—is
edited by Professor Wigmore, and in it have been incorporated the results
of the historical research and scientific analysis of Professor Thayer and
others.
But while great attention is paid to the rationale of the law of evidence,
as indispensable to a mastery of its principles, the practical character
of the rules of evidence is not overlooked, and an earnest effort is made,
by careful consideration of the statutes and decisions, and the use of a
Volume of Illustrations, to give the student such a working knowledge of
the subject as will enable him to apply its principles in the course of
judicial investigations.—From March 8 to end of session—Three times a
week.
Text-Books.—Greenleaf on Evidence (16th ed., by Wigmore); Hughes's Illustrations
of Evidence; The Professor's Printed Questions.
12. The Conflict of Laws.
Professor Minor.
As the facilities of commerce and intercourse between the various
States and countries of the world increase, this subject becomes of graver
hands of text-writers and law-schools.
The course includes a discussion of the nature and various kinds of
domicil; the law governing status, and the conveyance of personal property
abroad; the validity, construction, and effect of foreign wills, successions,
and administrations; foreign marriages and divorces; transactions relating
to real estate; the execution, interpretation, and validity of foreign
contracts; the law governing the effect of foreign judgments in rem or in
personam; the recovery of damages for foreign torts; the situs of crimes;
the application of the lex fori; and the modes of pleading and proving
foreign laws.—March 25 to end of session—Three times a week.
Text-Book.—Minor on Conflict of Laws; The Professor's Notes.
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 of whom presides 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 1907-1908:
Oscar L. Shewmake, Newport News, Va.
Charles T. Jesse, Bowling Green, Va.
Associate Judges
John Nash, Portsmouth, Va.
Roy H. Pickford, Streets, Va.
Clerks
PRACTICE COURT.
The object of the Practice Court is to afford to the student practical
facility in the procedure which he will be called on to apply at the bar,
and to familiarize him with the whole proceedings in actions at law, and
suits in equity.
The Practice Court is presided over by members of the Law Faculty,
and is organized October 1, two weeks after the beginning of the session.
assigned work are obligatory on all candidates for graduation in Pleading
and Practice at Law, and in Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure.[7]
In Pleading and Practice at Law the Final Session of the Practice
Court (at which motions are made in open court) is treated, as to attendance,
as a part of the regular examination held in December.
Practice Court Hour.—In Pleading and Practice at Law, the hour will be on
Thursday, from 1 to 2 p. m., the term of the court continuing from October 1 to
December 23. In Equity Procedure, the hour will be on Thursday, from 10 to 11
a. m., the term of the court continuing from January 3 to March 15. The right is
reserved to change the Practice Court Day from Thursday to Saturday, if found
necessary. The Final Session of the Practice Court in Pleading and Practice at
Law will be held on the day preceding the last scheduled lecture in that subject
previous to the Christmas Suspension.
PRIZES.
Edward Thompson Company Prize.—This prize for the best thesis on
a subject assigned by the Law Faculty is awarded annually in a competition
open to members of the second year class, who are candidates for
graduation. It is donated by the Edward Thompson Company, of Northport,
N. Y., and consists of a set of the second edition of the American and
English Encyclopedia of Law (32 volumes), of the estimated value of $240.
The Edward Thompson Company Prize for the session of 1906-'07 was
awarded to Samuel Mayner Wallace, of Midway, Ky. The subject for the
thesis was: "Contracts by Common Carriers Limiting the Amount of
Their Liability for the Loss of Goods by Negligence."
LIBRARY—LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The Law Library is accommodated by its own library rooms, separate
from the general University library. The rooms are heated by steam and
lighted by electricity, and are located with special reference to the convenience
of the law students. A librarian is in attendance during working
hours.
The library contains complete sets of the decisions of Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, United States Supreme
Court, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. It contains
the National Reporter System, complete; the American Decisions;
American Reports; American State Reports; Law Reports Annotated; a
in the form of general digests (including the Century) and Encyclopedias,
besides a large collection of text-books.
While the student is not encouraged too early to venture for himself
into either cases or text-books, save for the purpose of verifying or clearing
up some proposition of the lecture, or for the preparation of opinions
or briefs, he is incited to familiarize himself not only with the leading
cases to which his attention is called, but especially with the bibliography
of the law and the use of the books. To the latter subject, in addition to
the instruction incidentally given, several lectures are specially devoted.
The student is taught that books are the working tools of the lawyer, and
that facility in handling them, in the office and in the court room, is an
indispensable professional acquirement. He is instructed how to consult
authorities and run down cases; to distinguish doctrine from dicta; to
analyze, criticise, and compare cases; to distinguish imperative authority
from that which is persuasive only; to prepare briefs; and, generally, so
to accustom himself to law books and their use as to enable him to investigate,
with intelligence and skill, any question that may come within the
scope of his duty at the bar.
EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREES.
The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL. B.) is conferred upon such
students as have attended two full sessions of nine months each (for
provision as to late entrance see page 176) of the law school, and who
manifest an intimate acquaintance with all the subjects embraced in the
course, evidenced by successfully passing all written examinations, and
who have satisfactorily performed the work of the Moot and Practice
courts and other assigned work.
Any one of the classes of the first or second year may be completed
separately. Upon the satisfactory completion of any class, a certificate is
issued to the student, followed by the diploma of graduation when (and
not until) all the examinations have been successfully passed.
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 shall be prescribed.
Fall Examinations.—The privilege of standing Fall examinations
is granted to candidates for graduation who have fallen slightly below
the required standard, and who have not more than two classes
to complete.
These Fall examinations for the session of 1908-1909 will begin
September 15, 1908, and will continue from day to day until completed,
in the following order: (1) Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure;
(2) Pleading and Practice; (3) Conflict of Laws; (4) Corporations;
(5) Evidence; (6) Real Property.
Admission to Advanced Standing.—No credit is given for attendance
at another law school, nor for time spent in private reading. The candidate
for graduation must spend both the Junior and Senior year in residence
here.
Preliminary Education.[8]
—Students, and their parents or guardians,
are warned that the Law is peculiarly an intellectual profession,
and demands for its successful prosecution, whether at the Law
School or in the broader fields of professional life, a well-trained
mind. If it be true that untrained intellects, in rare instances, under
diligent and persistent effort, develop after entrance upon practice,
such exceptional cases but serve to illustrate the rule, that out of a
given number of young men entering upon the study of the Law,
those with sound preliminary training will have incomparably the
advantage, while those without it will be seriously handicapped, and
are likely never to rise above mediocrity in their profession.
The experience of the Law Faculty—nay, of all law teachers—is,
that the standing and progress of law students are, in large measure,
in the ratio of their academic preparation. Young gentlemen are
therefore advised not to begin their legal studies until they have
completed an academic course approximating that ordinarily required
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Special Students.—Students who can attend but a single session
are advised to take special courses, which the arrangement of the
classes readily permits. Over-zealousness, by which an ambitious
student is beguiled into the assumption of more work than he can
thoroughly master in a single year, leads to cramming and inaccuracy,
and often to complete failure. With this admonition, the special
student is free to select his own work. The following course is
suggested for students who propose to attend for a single session
only:
First year classes 1, 3, and 4 (see pp. 167-8); second year classes, 8,
9, and 11; or, if the student has already had some legal training,
numbers 7 and 10 of the second year may be added. The first course
suggested would require 15 hours, and the second 19½ hours, of class-work
a week.
Late Entrance.—Registration commences Thursday, September
10, and the work of the Law School begins promptly September 14,
and continues until the middle of June. Students are advised that late
entrance is a serious hindrance to progress. The student who enters
late must begin his work at the point to which the work has advanced
at the time of his entrance, and credit for a full year's attendance
cannot be given in case of entrance after November 1.
As regards conditions of admission in case of late entrance, reference
is made to the General Entrance Requirements, as stated on a
preceding page.
EXPENSES.
The necessary expenses at the University of a student in the Department
of Law may be estimated at from $330 upwards, according
to the mode of living, for each session. A fuller statement regarding
expenses may be found on preceding pages of this catalogue.
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