The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-07-25
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI.
OXFORD,
JULY 18th. Iss2.
THE LAW SCHOOL,

JULY 18th. Iss2.
THE LAW SCHOOL,
Faculty.:
JOHN Y. WADDEI- D. D., CHANCELLOR
THOMAS WALTON, III. B. PRoFfssoR.
TTNIIE following are the subjects OF study pur-
IL sued IN this School, and under each head
Is set down list OF those authors read from
time 10 time, on that particular topic.
l. The Law of Real Estate.
Blackstone. Kent, Washburne. and Blackwell
on Tax Titles.
2 The Law of Personal Property, in
Guiding Contracts and Commercial Law.
Kent, Story, Smith, ByIes, Redfeld, and Par
sons, and Benjamin on Sales and Williams
on Personal Property
3. The Rights Of Persons
Blackstone. Kent Shoulders Domestic Rela-
tions and Angel y Ames Corporations.
4. The Law of Torts,
Addison on Torts.
). Criminal Law and Procedure
Blackstone and Bishop.
6. Pleading, Evidence and Practice.
Stephen on Pleading, Gritty on Pleading,
Greenleaf Evidence, Starkies Evidence,
Blackstone, Conkling's United States
Courts, and Bump ON Bankruptcy.
Moot Courts, also, have always been in use
in this School.
7. Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and
Practice.
Adams, Story and Daniel.
s. Constitutional Law
Cooley, Kent and Story.
9. International Law, including Pri-
vate International Law or the conflict of
Laws.
Wharton Conflict of Laws, Story, Kent and
Wheaton.
Textbooks are the chief means Of instruc-
ton inIthis School and lectures not read to
the class. for law is too abstruse o learning TO
be taught after that fashion; but it 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 a law school |
and especially of one not over-crowded with |
that by rigorous course of eX- |
animation repeated with every student every |
lay on his day reading, thorough accuracy |
IS guaranteed in his mastery of the subject. |
In this school. every student is thus examined |
very day, about three hours day being de- /
voted to this exercise, and explanations being |
given on those points which this rigorous ex- |
may show that the student does not |
The law course here has always been a two |
5ear4' course. In June 1872 the trustees dis
)ensed with the necessity of two years atten-
lance. and permitted the graduation of stu
lent who attends one year; provided he
hOuld pass n satisfactory examination. The
legree, or diploma. thus obtained. is made by
tatute a license TO practice law in any court
n Mississippi. The student may enter the |
lass at any time, though he is advised to be
lere at the beginning Of the session, about
he first of October.
Board and lodging, fuel, lights, washing
md servants attendance, can be had in Ok
ord at prices varying from sixteen to twenty
i've dollars month-the cheapest being about
IS good as the c0stliest. The tuition fee Is fifty
Gllars There were two hundred and sixty
tudents in the University last session. The
4aw School, though recognized only just rs
he University opened, had success surprising
0 its friends, and it is already known that
eXt year it willhave n still better attendance
70 young man who has attempted without as
ocIates in study, TO master the voiumlnous
earning of the law, need be told of the dismal
nd often overpowering dreariness of such an
Blackstone, after quoting a
cry great lawyer, Sir Henry SpelmanS con-
ession, that it made his soul sink within him,
Ondemhs the effort TO learn law by 'seques-
ering one self from the world; and by a tie
ious, lonely process, extracting the theory of
ne law from a mass Of undigested learning.
lie equally condemns the effort to learn "by
n assldu0us attendance on the courts, to pick
p theory and practice together, A law
ehOol gives the student immense relief from
lis painful irksomeness attending his first
ear or twos plodding in the endless volumes
the law.
Such relief is derived from the emulation
nd companionship of studying in classes.
nd from the daily examinations. The stu
ents are constantly discussing their studies ,
OF only with the professor but with each 9TH
r, and their interest is thus prevented from |
a gging, and their daily work from becoming
5pulsiye.
Besides, however, the advantages of pre-
ii n of n !
nd therefore, much more rigorous prOsecu- |
on of his studies to be derived by law stu {
ent from the daily discussions of Il law school, |
lcre Is another question, namely, whether 3
wv office or a law school be the better place
II learning law in a 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 opiu-
N ofISir William Blackstone
Making due allowance says he, 'for one
two shining exceptions, experience may
ach rs to foretell, that a lawyer, educa ted to
lie bar in subservience to attorneys and so ]
citors, will find he has begun at the wrong
Id. If 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
I'm expect to comprehend, any arguments
'awn, prl0ri, from the spirit of the laws /
nd the natural foundations of Justice"
On the other hand, speaking of the law /
hool he says:
IF the student will afford himself here a
ear or twos further leisure, to lay the foun-
ltion of his future labors in a solid and sci 7
ltihc method, without thirsting too early to I
tend that practice which it is impossible he \
ould rightly comprehend, he will afterward \
'oceed with the greatest ease, and viii unfold
e most intricate points with intuitive
dity and clearness.
Blackstone Commentaries, Introduction, :
}. 3l-34. iuly23 !
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