New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-25
THE WOMAN'S LAW CLASSES
FOR THREE YEARS NO ENDOWMENT
HAS BEEN NECESSARY.
FOUR HUNDRED WOMEN HAVE ATTENDED tn"
UNIVERSITY LEcruREs-LAsr YEARS CLASS
NUMBERED EIGHTY STUDENTS.
FORTY-sEvEN PASSING THE

FoRrY-sEvEN PASSING THE
FINAL EXAMINATIONS.
The woman's law class Of the New-York UNI
versity will enter on its seventh year this morn
ing The opening exercises will be held In the UNI
versity Building. Washington Square. and Will be-
gin at II o'clock. Among those present on the
platform will he the Chancellor OF the University.
the Rev Or. Henry VI. MacCracken; the president
and vice-president Of the Woman's Legal Educa-
ton Society Mrs John P. Mum and Miss Helen
NJ. Gould; the dean Of the law faculty, Professor
Clarence D. Ashley; Professor Isaac Franklin Rus
SELL Miss Anita Hetherington Haggerty. Mrs. Ed
gar S. Werner Miss Florence Lauterbach and Miss
Isabella Pettus all in academica caps and gowns
Addresses will be made by Mrs. Mum. who is TO
preside Chancellor MacCracken. Professor Russell
and Dean Ashley.
The lecturer for the coming winter will be Pro
fessor Russell who has conducted this work sue
cessfully for the last Ave years He will lecture
to the morning class, and his four woman assist
ants Mrs. Werner. Miss Haggerty Miss Lauter-
bach and Miss Petus. will take the evening class.
Mrs. Werner and Miss Haggerty are well-known
members Of the bar and experienced lecturers on
law. Miss Lauterbach has finished complete uni
versty law courses. having studied three years
and taken both the bachelors and masters degree
in law Miss Pettus has had great experience a.
a writer and public speaker. Is a ripe scholar ana
has achieved distinction In legal study at the UNI
versty Miss Pettus will deliver the first course
OF evening lectures taking the place Of Mrs. wsr-
ner. who has vet recovered from her bicycle
accident Of last summer.
Provision was made by the laws Of 1886 for tho
admission Of women lawyers to the bar Of this
State. and one candidate sworn In Immediately
opened It's law sehoo. to women and duriHr the he
last six years about forty women have been srsd.
sss a Te g.
ucation Society was incorporated June H. 1880, and
the womans law class at the University. The
sn p2ss i: Of M ss i Hss M Sh1
president and Miss Isabella Mary PettuA score.
tsry During It's brief career the society has ~:
many distinguished juriss, educators and scholars.
h.e as the ~
s sn. list Of these would include the namss
P TsSm Dssy a S'Sn bs sS s
eT dSs Austin oss5b Ab99 s Iqdgs George
dent Hill Of Rochester univsrsty President Taylor
Hn s of s. q rm. Go
Mrs Russell Sage.
FIRST TO LECTURE ON LAW TO WOMEN.
Nre. Emily Kempin. who had taken the degree
Of doctor OF aws at Zurich University. sw1tses-
land. tho first lecturer law women &
the University. Or. Kempin organized and planned
the work as II II now conducted. and the enthusl-
astic support which she enlisted secured en-
dowment Of 1900 a year. subscribed for q period
Of four years. This gave the class good start.
and It has sustained itself for tho last three years
without endowment. DR.. Kemp!n was recalled 70
Europe after one years service at the University.
and Professor Christopher @. Ttedeman, the emf
nent writer OF lawbooks. appointed to the w.
cant chair. DR.. Tiedeman retired after years
service when Professor Russell took up the direc-
ton OF the lectures. and has since remained In
charge OF the students OF the class His Lectures
the women's law class have been published In
the form OF volume on elementary law.
Over four hundred students have attended these
law lectures at the University. including some Of
the best-known women in New-York. such Mrs.
! Ellen Hardin Waiworth Mrs. George B. McClel-
| Ian. Mrs. Frank X. Hahn. Mrs. Wesley Reid Davis
Mrs John, P: Mum. Miss Helen Miller Gould. the
! Countess de Castellane Mrs Lillian Baysrd Taylor
| K!ani. Mrs Charles II. Truax, Mrs Bradhurst
! Schierelin. Mrs Charles Inslee Pa-dee and Mrs
| Syvsnus Reed. The class last year numbered
| eighty students. OF whom forty-seven passed the
anal examination and took tho Chancellor's certid-
| cate at the closing exercises.