Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
THE LAW SCHOOLS.
Recent Happenings Among the Pro-
fessOrs and Students.

Recent happenings Among the Pro-
fessors and Students.
The senior class of Columbian Law School
has held during the past week one of the
most exciting elections which has ever taken
place in the law school. A protracted meet
ing was held on Monday night, but nothing
was accomplished, and the meeting adjourn
ed at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. The Sec
ond meeting was held Thursday night. At
ter three ballots had been taken it was seen
that the deadlock would probably continue
unless some candidate was withdrawn, and
Mr.. Clay, one of the three candidates for
president, withdrew in favor of Mr.. Fisher
On the next ballot Mr.. Fisher had a ma
jority of four votes over Mr.. Gray, and was
declared elected president of the class. The
election of the other officers was postponed
until some future time.
The Debating Society will discuss this
evening the question Resolved, that only
three-fourths vote of the jury should be
required for verdict" The speakers will
be Messrs Philip, Hillyer, KEEPER Stauffer
Sparks and Smith.
The executive committee of the post grad
uate class is composed of H. Prescott Galley
chairman: Albert T. Ryan, Harry w. Van
Dyke, John E. Clark, jr., George A. H. Mills,
George b. Cortelyou and Alfred N. Dalrym-
pie.
National.
A large audience greeted Judge Cole last
Tuesday evening upon the occasion of his
Introductory lecture on statutory law.
Judge Cole outlined briefly the origin of
statute law, dwelling at some length upon
the Magma Charta, and concluded by refer
ring to the tendency of modern legislative
bodies to encroach upon the powers of the
judicial branch of the government, and the
evils incident thereto.
The postgraduate class has completed
the study of mercantile law, under Prof.
Claughton, and will begin the study of ap-
piled evidence in civil causes under Prof
senior no
subject Of pleading, and will next take up
the first volume of Greenleaf on Evidence
The second meeting of the Debating So
ciety of the senior class was held Friday
evening. November s. The subject discussed
was Resolved, That an attorney can, with
integrity, defend a criminal whom he knows
to be guilty. The speakers on the affirma-
tive were Messrs Lowe, Lannon and San
ders, and on the negative Messrs Cover
Newman and Clark The judges rendered
decision in favor OF the affirmative.
Georgetown.
The officers of the junior class, elected at
a meeting held last Tuesday evening, are:
st. c. B. Gwynn, president; E. K Fox, first
vice president; NJ. H. King, second vice
president; George P. Hoover, secretary, and
w. w. Stewart, treasurer.
The Debating Society will hold it's second
debate this evening, and the subject for dis
cussion is Resolved, That any departure
from the precedent established by Wash
ington and jefferson in retiring from the
presidential office at the expra ton of their
second term would be unwise, unpatriotic
and un-American." The speakers on the
affirmative will be Messrs. O'LaughIin, Gar
land and Farrow; on the negative Messrs
Fitzgerald, Stewart and OBrien
Professor Hamilton has given his class the
first of a number of practical exercises.
Each member is required to write letter to
a delinquent debtor, notifying him that suit
viii be brought the debt unless settle
ment is made, and to prepare a declaration
upon the account.