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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 171) 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 1907-1908 will begin September
17, 1907, 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.[5] —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 p. 162); 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 12, and
the work of the Law School begins promptly September 16, 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.