Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-21

may be safely rested that the number
of law students will be still further
increased until the school becomes
as it should be, the most thorough
and prominent law school in the
South.
To accomplish this, it is believed
that in some degree there must be
a change in the relation of the law
professors to the University. The
change of system under which the
Dean of the school, Professor Morris,
with a guaranteed salary, gives his
entire time to the work of the school
has been a step in the right direction.
In the opinion of the committee, the
increased number of law students, as
we'll as changed conditions, require
that so soon as the proper selection
can be made, at least one additional
law professor, the most capable and
efficient as a teacher of law, should
be secured who shall likewise give
all of his time and attention to the
work of instruction.
From the beginning of the Law
School, the instruction of the students
has been made almost entirely depen-
dent upon the service of practicing
lawyers, who have given a portion of
their time to such instruction This
service has been only incidental and
in measure secondary to their more
engrossing professional labors. The
future progress and efficiency of the
school require that in the main this
system shall be abandoned, and that
in so doing there shall be at least
two active and efficient instructors
who in their work in the Law School
shall bear the same relation to it
that other professors in other de-
partments and schools of the Univer-
sity bear to their work
To do this it is necessary that the
additional instructor SHALL as is now
done in the case of Professor Morris
receive regular specified salary. The
present attendance upon the school
will enable such a salary to be guar
anteed and paid without any add
tional charge upon the revenues of
the University. Under such a system
the University will be at liberty to
engage the services of such on in
structOr wherever the most efficient
professor of law may be found while
in some branches of instruction it
may be found advisable and practi-
cable to utilize the partial services
of some professional men in law and
medicine as has heretofore been done
in larger degree.
Your committee, therefore. econl-
mend that at the ensuing annual
meeting of the Board of Trustees in
1909, an additional instructor III and
professor of law be elected who
shall receive a salary Of s. 800 per
| annum.
Your committee further recommend
that for the ensuing year Judge An
drew ]. Cobb lie elected as a profess
sor of law, to render such service in
instruction in the school as it may be
practicable for him to give, and
that he be paid therefor such an
amount out of the revenues of the
school, after the payment of the
| guaranteed salary of the dean as may
| be agreed upon between him and
| Judge Howell Cobb.
Too much credit cannot be given to
Professor Morris and fudge Howell
Cobb, to whom, with the law profes-
sors who have preceded them, the
| University is indebted for its success
full progression through a long sea
| son of varying fortunes 20 It's pres
ent condition of gratifying prosperity
On account OF physical weakness, ano
his engrossing duties as Judge of the
| City Court, Judge Cobb has rendered
his resignation, to take effect at the
end of the next ensuing year. The
committee, while thus bearing cordial
| testimony to his most valuable and
| faithful work in the past, recommend
that, in recognition thereof, the BOARD
of Trustees shall, at the conclusion
of his active service as professor Of
law, elect him as Emeritus Professor
of Law.
A. o. BACON,
w e. SIMMONS,
S. I'll. ADAMS,
Committee