Second year.-Contracts and quasi-contracts, 102 hours (Keener's selections on contracts and cases on quasi contracts); administrative law, 68 hours; bailments, 68 hours; equity jurisprudence, 68 hours, (Ames's cases on trusts); history of European law, 68 hours; real and personal property, 68 hours (Gray's cases); agency, 36 hours; code practice, comparative constitutional law, 72 hours, (Burgess's political science and constitutional law); equity pleading and procedure, 40 hours; insurance, 36 hours (Richard's treatise and select cases); sales of personal property, 40 hours, (Benjamin's sales). Optional: Medical jurisprudence. The courses of the second year are elective. The required work for the degree during the year is 408 hours.

Third year.-Code pleading and practice, 68 hours; private corporations, 68 hours (Cummings's cases); equity jurisprudence, 68 hours (Langdell's cases); evidence, 68 hours (Thayer's cases); international law, 68 hours; negotiable paper, 68 hours (Ames's cases on bills and notes); partnership, 68 hours (Ames's cases); suretyship and mortgage, 68 hours; systematic jurisprudence, 68 hours; wills and administration, 68 hours (Gray's cases on property); admiralty and shipping, 36 hours; conflict of private law, 40 hours; municipal corporations, 40 hours; law of taxation, 36 hours. Optional: Conflict of criminal law, extradition and nationality, 36 hours. The courses in the third are elective. The work required for the year is 340 hours. Admission and methods of instruction.-Applicants for admission must have received a good academic education, including a knowledge of the Latin language as is required for admission to the freshman class of the school of arts. The examination to ascertain this is waived in the case of graduates of literary colleges. Moot courts are held each week.

9. Law Department of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Douglass Boardman, dean.Fourteen instructors; 152 students, 3 having degrees in letters or science; 37 graduates; 35 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Elementary law (Blackstone), contracts, agency, criminal law and procedure, torts, domestic relations, law of real property, evidence, bailments, common law pleading and practice in cases at law, civil procedure under the code, English constitutional history. The regular class instruction of the schools is at no time less than 15 hours a week for each class.

Second year.-Private and municipal corporations, wills and administration, mercantile law, evidence, real property, equity jurisprudence, equity pleading and procedure in State and United States courts, civil procedure under the codes, chattel mortgages, mechanics' liens, assignments for the benefit of creditors, practical suggestions concerning the preparation, trial, and argument of causes, Roman law, international law, American constitutional history, American constitutional law. The regular class instruction is at no time less than 15 hours a week for each class. Note: Course of special lectures is given apparently during the two years as follows: The statute of frauds and fraudulent conveyances (two courses), constitutional law (two courses), shipping and admiralty, patent laws of the United States, medical jurisprudence, law of insurance, extradition. Opportunities are given the students for instruction in elocution and oratory.

Admission and methods of instruction.-There is an examination for admission as required by the law of the State of New York.

The instruction is carried on by lectures and examinations, by ora! ext-book exposition and recitations, and by the study of selected cases. Instruction to the more advanced students by means of the study of cases is made a special feature of the school. A session of the university court is held, as a rule, each week during the school year.

10. School of Law of Chaddock College, Quincy, Ill. Thomas R. Petrie, secretary.Four instructors; 12 students, 1 having degree in letters or science; 1 graduate; 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Criminal law, torts, real estate, equity, contracts, constitutional law.

Second year.-Common law, pleading and practice, mercantile law, evidence, corporations.

Admission and methods of instruction.-Applicant for admission is examined if unable to present a college diploma from an institution of collegiate or academic grade. The instruction is given by lecture and recitation. Moot courts are held at convenient times.

11. Law School of the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., H. G. Hodgkins, registrar. Twelve instructors, 383 students, 63 having degree in letters or science, 160 graduates; 35 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Real and personal property, contracts, crimes and misdemeanors, three times a week. Blackstone, Kent, Parson's Contracts, Byles on Bills. Also lectures on domestic relations, commercial paper and torts.

Second year.-Pleading, evidence, equity jurisprudence, pleading and practice, partnership, with lectures on ejectments, quo warranto, etc., three times a week. Also a course of lectures on constitutional law, law of corporations, international law, civil law, patents. These are open to students of first year. The lectures on constitutional law are given every Saturday. Books used: Stephen's Pleading (Tyler's edition), Greenleaf's Evidence, Smith's Manual of Equity, and Mitford and Tyler's Pleading and Practice in Equity.

Third year.-[Graduate course in practice] Cox's Exercises for Law Students, Archbold's Law of Nisi Prius, Mitford's and Tyler's Equity Pleading and Practice. Also lectures on jurisdiction, practice and peculiar jurisprudence of the courts of the United States, and also on criminal law, legal bibliography, practical commercial law, and the history of law. The last three courses are open to all classes of the school.

Organization and methods of instruction.-The school has three classes, to wit, Junior, senior, and graduate classes in practice. In the junior class a lesson is assigned in the text-book which forms the subject of the professor's lecture. In the lecture the professor brings out the points of the text, and then quizzes the class npon both text and lecture. In the senior class the method is the same with the exception that the quizzing occurs at the meeting following that upon which the lecture was given. This method of course does not apply to the lectures on constitutional law, civil law, etc. In the graduate class for more than half the time the exercises are those of a nisi prius moot court.

12. Law School of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., N. Green, dean. Three instructors, 71 students, 52 graduates, 40 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Caruther's History of a Lawsuit, Kent's Commentaries, Vols. I, II, III, Field's Corporations, Cooley's Torts, Greenleaf's Evidence, Vol. 1, Stephen's Pleading.

Second year.-Kent's Commentaries, Vol. IV, Barton's Suit in Equity, Strong's Equity Jurisprudence, Parson's Contracts, Wharton's Criminal Law. (This course, as given for two years, may be completed in ten months).

Method of instruction.-Moot courts are held.

13. School of Law of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., Augustus L. Mason, dean. Seven instructors, 48 students, 9 having degree in letters and science, 19 graduates, 38 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Elementary law, sources of law and philosophy of legal history, domestic relations, personal property, contracts, agency, bailments, partnership, negotiable instruments, torts, pleading and practice, statutory construction, international law. Each student needs the statutes of his own Stato. Juniors entering at the beginning of the junior year need Blackstone's Commentaries.

Second year.-Law of real property, equity jurisprudence, constitutional jurisprudence of the United States, wills and decedents, estates, evidence, criminal law, pleading, practice and advocacy, mercantile guaranty and suretyship, patents and copyrights, private corporations, railroads, express and telegraph companies, banks, ED 91-27

building associations, insurance companies, municipal corporations. Seniors are expected to attend junior lectures.

Methods of instruction.-The work is largely conducted by lectures. Moot courts are held, during a large part of the course, by the dean.

14. School of Law, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., Martin F. Morris, dean. Ten instructors, 268 students, 132 graduates, 34 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Personal property, torts, domestic relations, criminal laws, real estate, contracts, bills and notes, 4 times a week during school year. Books used: Blackstone's Commentaries, Schouler's Personal Property, Vol. 1, Bishop's Contracts, Byles' Bills, Cooley's Tort's, Williams' Real Property, Browne's Domestic Relations. To relieve the embarrassment of those who find a knowledge of the Latin language essential to the study of law, a course in Latin has been established in the law school by the classical department of the university.

Second year. Real estate, contracts, bills, and notes. Twice a week during the year. Pleading, practice evidence, equity pleading and practice, moot court three times a week during year. Books used: Stephen's Pleading, Cox's Practice, Greenleaf's Evidence Vol. 1, Adams's Equity, Barton's Suit in Equity.

Third year (post-graduate course).-Pleading, practice, evidence, equity, equity pleading and practice, moot courts, three times a week during year. Partnership, corporations, constitutional and international law, admiralty and comparative jurisprudence, conveyancing, office practice, etc., twice a week during year. Special lectures: Statutory law, testamentary law, once a week during year. Books used: Sedgwick's Statutory and Constitutional Law, Paschal's Annotated Constitution, Story's Partnership, Boone's Corporations.

Organization and methods of instruction.-School has a junior, senior, and postgraduate course of study. The system of instruction is as follows: A lesson averaging from thirty to forty pages of the text-book is assigned in advance, which the student is expected to master. During the recitation hour the lecturer goes over this ground, and then quizzes the class. Thus, the student has three opportunities of becoming familiar theoretically and practically with each topic treated in the course. The moot court is divided into a circuit court and a court of appeals, the former holding two regular sessions weekly, the latter sits once a month.

15. Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., C. C. Langdell, dean. Nine instructors, 363 students, 44 graduates, 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Contracts, 108 hours; criminal law and procedure, 72 hours; property, 72 hours; torts, 72 hours; civil procedure at common law, 36 hours. Books used: Langdell's Cases on Contracts; Chaplin's Cases on Criminal Law; Grey's Cases on Property, Vols. 1 and 2; Ames's Cases on Torts; Ames's Cases on Pleading.

Second year.-Agency, 72 hours; bills of exchange and promissory notes, 72 hours; law of carriers, 72 hours; contracts, 72 hours; evidence, 72 hours; jurisdiction and procedure in equity, 72 hours; property, 72 hours; sales of personal property, 72 hours; trusts, 72 hours. Books used: Ames's Cases on Bills and Notes, Kener's Cases on Quasi Contracts, Langdell's Cases in Equity Pleadings, Grey's Cases in Property, Vols. 3 and 4, Langdell's Cases on Sales, Ames's Cases on Trusts.

Third year.-Constitutional law, 72 hours; corporations, 72 hours; jurisdiction and procedure in equity, 72 hours; partnership, 72 hours; property, 72 hours; surety and mortgage, 72 hours. Books used: Ames's Cases on Partnership, Gray's Cases on Property, Vols. 5 and 6.

Extra courses.-Patent law, 10 lectures; peculiarities of Massachusetts law and practice, 2 hours a week.

Admission and methods of instruction.-Applicants for admission not graduates of a college are examined in Latin (Cæsar, Cicero), Blackstone's Commentaries. The character of the instruction is shown in a general way by the text-books used. Every student who has been in the school one year or more has an opportunity each year of arguing in a case before one of the professors in a moot court.

16. Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, Cal. C. F. Dio Hastings, dean. Six instructors, 92 students, 15 graduates, 39 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Persons and personal rights, during a portion of the year; real property, during a portion of the year; contracts, during a portion of the year. Books used: Pomeroy's Municipal Law, Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries, Cooley's Torts, Schouler's Domestic Relations, Bishop's Contracts, Tiedeman's Real Froperty.

Second year.-Mercantile law, 5 times a week (lectures and recitations) during greater portion of the year, wills and decedents' estates, lectures and recitations during portion of the year. Books used: Benjamin's Sales, Schouler's Bailments, Tiedeman's Commercial Paper, May's Insurance, Story's Agency, Bates's Partnership, Morawitz's Corporations, Schouler's Wills, Code of Civil Procedure, Title Proceedings in the Probate Court.

Third year.-Equity jurisprudence, recitation twice a week during a portion of the year; evidence, recitations twice a week during a portion of the year; pleading and practice, recitations, discussions, and practical exercises three times a week throughout the year; constitutional law, recitations twice a week during a portion of the year; legal ethics, 8 or 10 lectures to class. Books used: Stephens on Pleading, Lube's Equity Pleading, Bliss on Code Pleading, Code of Civil Procedure, Greenleaf's Evidence, Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law. Lectures on special subjects are given and leading cases are constantly referred to and are required to be studied.

Admission and methods of instruction.-Applicant must pass an examination in English, arithmetic, algebra, plane geometry, history and geography, Cæsar (Books I-IV). There is a moot court upon which the second and third year students are required to attend.

17. Law Department of Howard University, Washington, D. C. B. F. Leighton, dean. Six instructors, 74 students, 33 graduates, 32 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Blackstone's Commentaries, Williams's Real Property, Browne's Domestic Relations, Boone's Real Property, Parsons Contracts, Byler's Bills.

Second year.-Stephen's Pleading, Cox's Criminal Law Practice, Adams's Equity Jurisprudence, Bishops' Criminal Law.

18. Little Rock Law Class in connection with Little Rock University, Little Rock, Ark. Three instructors, 30 students, 1 graduate, 12 weeks in school year. Course of study two years.

19. Law Department of McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill. W. W. Edwards, dean. One instructor, 25 students, 3 graduates, 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Blackstone's Commentaries, books 1 and 2; lectures on Constitutional History, English and American, 13 weeks. Blackstone's Commentaries, books 3 and 4; Washburn's Criminal Law; Lectures on American Constitutional Law 11 weeks. Walker's American Law, Gould's Pleading, General Review of Blackstone, 10 weeks.

Second year.-Bishops' Contracts; Kent's Commentaries, Parts I-IV; lectures on pleadings, 13 weeks. Tiedeman's Real Property, Kent's Commentaries, Parts V-IV; Lectures on International Law, 11 weeks. Cooley's Torts, Greenleaf's Evidence, Story's Equity Jurisprudence, 10 weeks.

Organization and methods of instruction.-Applicants for admission to the Junior Class must pass a satisfactory examination in the studies required for admission to the Freshman Class in the Scientific Department of the college. Daily recitations are had and the lectures are an important feature of the work. A complete system of moot courts is maintained.

20. Law Department of the National University, Washington, D. C. Eugene D. Carusi, dean. Eight instructors, 115 students, 32 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Real and personal property, contracts, negotiable instruments, criminal law, constitutional law, bailments, domestic relations. Blackstone's Commentaries, Williams's Real Property (with references to Kent), Smith's Contracts (with references to Anson), Ralston's Discharge of Contracts, Benjamin Chalmer's Digest of the Law of Bills and Notes (with references to Byles). Second year.-Equity jurisprudence, pleading, torts, constitutional law, Federal jurisprudence and practice. The members of this class are also expected to attend the exercises of the class of the first year. There is also a special course in patent law and one in practice, open to all students in the school. Moot court optional. Cooley's Torts, Stephen's Pleadings, Greenleaf's Evidence, Vol. 1, Adams's Equity, Walker's Patent Law.

Third year.

(Post-graduate course.)-Mercantile law, criminal law, applied evidence, constitutional law, practice in moot court. The members of this class are required to attend the exercises of the senior class. Smith's Mercantile Law, Greenleaf's Evidence, second and third volumes, Paschal's American Constitution, Cox's Practice.

Organization and methods of instruction.-The school has junior, senior, and postgraduate classes. Each class is provided with a professor who devotes himself exclusively to its instruction, maintaining a constant system of oral examinations. The students pursue a regular couse of reading and are called upon to note the substance of what they have read. What is deemed of peculiar advantage in this law school is the method of teaching, "which is entirely Socratic." Two moot courts are held each week, one for motions, etc., and the other for the arguments of the questions of law and trials of factitious suits. There is also a court of appeals. 21. Law Department of the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Nine instructors, 174 students, 32 having degrees in letters or science, 73 graduates, 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Legal study and ethics, 1 week; elementary law, 9 weeks; contracts, 10 weeks; pleading, 5 weeks; study of cases, 4 weeks; criminal law, 3 weeks (McClain's outlines), torts 9 weeks, (Cooley's); domestic relations, 3 weeks; trial and judgment, 4 weeks; evidence, 2 weeks; evidence, 5 weeks (Vol. I, Greenleaf's); sales, bailments, and pledges, 5 weeks; negotiable instruments, 5 weeks; Benjamin's Chalmers's bills, notes, and checks; probate law and procedure, 4 weeks.

Second year.-Real property, 10 weeks (Tiedeman's); insurance, 4 weeks; chattel mortgages, 4 weeks; carriers, 4 weeks; damages, 4 weeks; patents, 2 weeks; equity and equity pleading, 11 weeks (Bispham); corporations, 3 weeks; medical jurisprudence, 24 weeks; appellate proceedings, 1 week; agency, 1 week; criminal procedure, 3 weeks (McClain's outline); partnership, 4 weeks; Federal jurisprudence and admiralty, 2 weeks; constitutional law, 7 weeks (Cooley's); constitutional limitations, 1 week; attachment, garnishment, and execution, 3 weeks; justico practice.

Third year. Note to the course of two years: If the faculty permit, the student may take the following courses: Roman Law (given during 1892-'93), History of Constitutional Law in the United States (not given during 1891-'92), State Law (open to seniors only when three or more apply for a course in the law of a particular State).

Organization and methods of instruction.-Applicants not graduates of a higher or secondary institution, or not possessed of a teacher's certificate, must pass an examination in English language and history, and American history. Instruction is given by means of lectures, text-books, and the study of cases. Two moot courts are conducted in curriculum with the exercises of the school.

22. St. Louis Law School of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. William G. Hammond, dean. Eight instructors, 81 students, 23 having degrees in letters or science, 21 graduates; 34 weeks in school year.