The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-19

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
OXFORD,
JULY Hsah. SI72.
THO LAW SCHOOL,
FACULTY.:
JOHN \. wADDEI. ID, CHAxcr1Loy
THOMAS WALTON, IL. B., PRoFsssoT
\ June. 1872 the Trustees dispensed with IN
l. necessity Of two years attendance In thi
Law School and permitted the graduation of
student who attends one year provided b,
SHOULD pass satisfactory examination. TIT
degree, or diploma, thus obtained, is made D,
statute, license TO practice law in any cour
IN mississippi The student may enter tn,
class at any time, though he is advised 10 b.
here AZ the beginning Ct the session, abou
Board and lodging, fuel lights, washing
aud servants attendance. can be had in Ok.
ford az prices varying from sixteen to twenty.
hFe dollars a month-the cheapest being about
as good as the costliest. The tuition fee is fifty
dollars in the Law School; in all other depart.
ments OF the University, tuitiOn is free There
were two hundred and sixty students in the
University last session. The Law School.
though programmed only just the Univer-
sIty opened, had success surprising to its
most sanguine friends, and IL is already
/ y a
| ter attendance.
/ The following are the subjects of study pur-
sued IN TINS School and under each head
/ is set down list o: those authors read from
/ time to time on that particular topic.
1. The Law of Real Estate.
Blackstone, Kent, Washburne, and Blackwell
on Tax Titles.
2. The Law of Personal Property, in
GLIDING Contracts and Commercial Law.
Kent. Story, Smith, Byles. Redield. and Par
sons, and Benjamin on Sales and Williams
on Personal Property
3. The Rights of Persons.
Blackstone. Kent, Shoulders Domestic Rela-
ttons, and Angel X Ames on Corporations.
I. The Law of Torts.
Addison on Torts.
>. Criminal Law and Procedure.
Blackstone and Bishop.
6. The Law of Practice, including
Pleading and Evidence
Stephen on Pleading. entity ON Pleading
Greenleaf on Evidence, Starkies Evidence,
3 Blackstone, Conklings United States
Courts, and Bump on Bankruptcy.
Moot Courts, also, have always been in use
in this School.
Z. Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and
Practice.
Adams, Story and Daniel
g. Constitutional Law.
Cooley, Kent and Story.
8. international Law, including Pri- |
vate International Law or the Conflict of |
Laws.
Wharton Conflict of Laws Story, Kent and |
Wheaton.
Textbooks arc the chief means Of instruc- |
ton in this School and lectures are not read to /
the class, for law is too abstruse a learning to 1
be taught after that fashion; but il has been
the practice to furnish the student written /
lectures ON Mississippi practice, for him to |
read and copy.
One of the chief advantages of n law school
and especially Of one not over-crowded with |
students-is that by a rigorous course of ex-
animation repeated with every student every |
day on his days reading, thorough accuracy
IS guaranteed in his mastery of the subject.
In tins school, every student is thus examined
every day, about three hours "A day being de-
voted to this exercise, and explanations being
given on those points which this rigorous ex-
animation may show that the student does not
understand.
practice has also been adopted here Of re-
curing the students, frequently, to write down
In the recitation room synopsis OF their latest
reading, in order 10 compel them TO that accu- |
racy which is essential to a lawyer; and each
student is in turn required TO sand up before
the class, and, in manner as decent and quiet
as possible, to deliver an oral statement Of the
|
sis of the book under perusal. This is done TO
train the young men to the art OF forensic ora
tory; for they are not allowed to deliver a
memoirs ed statement and their exercise |
lmOuntsto the same thing as an oral argument
n the bar, and IS perhaps tue only practi-
;ai mode ofteaching he art ofpublic spea king |
phylously, the fewer the students, the more
raining of this kind each one can obtain.
No youngma who has attempted without as
'ociates III study, TO master the vOlumnous
earning of the law need he told Of the dismal
Il .tes,rn 4.
Undertaking. Blackstone after quoting
very great lawyer Sir Henry Spelmans con-
ession, that such trial had made his soul sink
within him, condemns the effort to learn law
~ "sequestering ones self from the world
md by n tedious, lonely process, extract
ng the theory of the law from "A mass of
learning. He equally condemns
he effort to learn il "by IN assiduous atten-
lance on the courts, TO pick up theory and
Practice together a law school gives the !
tudent immense relief from this painful
rksomeness attending his first year or two's
'lodding in the endless volumes Of the law.
Such relief is derived from the emulation !
nd companionship Of studying in clnsses |
nd from the daily examinations. The stu
ents are constantly discussing their studies
lot only with the professor but with each 9TH
r, and their interest is thus prevented from Z
tagging, and their daily work from becoming
epulsive.
Besides, however, the advantages of pre-
islon in his learning, and of much livelier
mi therefore, much more vigorous prosecu-
ION OF his studies, to be derived by law stu
ent from the daily discussions of a law school, ! ,
here is another question, namely, whether | j
lw Office or n law school be the better place
or learning law in scientific method, such
$ every man must pursue to obtain success
nd on this question, the attention of students (
nd of the profession is invited TO the opin-
Dn of Sir William Blackstone
Making due allowance" says he, "fOr one
r two shining exceptions, experience NAV
each ms TO foretell, that lawyer, educated 10 :
he bar in subservience TO attorneys and So
citors, will find be has begun at the wrong
nd. II practice be the whole he is taught ,
ractice must also be the whole he will ever =
now. He must never aspire to form, and sell
ON expect 10 comprehend, any arguments q
rawn, Priori, from the spirit Of the laws !
nd the natural foundations of Justice I
On the other hand speaking Of the law I
chool he says:
IF the student win afford himself here n y
ear or two's further leisure, to lay the foun-
alton Of his future labors in a solid and sci
ntific method, without thirsting too early to $
ttend that practice which il is impossible he
lOuld rightly comprehend, he will afterward
roceed with the greatest ease, and will unfold
ne most intricate points with an intuitive ra-
idity and clearness"
/ Blackstone Commentaries, Introduction,
D. 31-34. july23w6m
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