The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-03
c. v. j. LAW SCHOOL
!. PROMISES RECORD
FOR ENTRY CLASS
Thoroughness and High
Standard Has Increased
j Attendance.

With mountaineering attendance
promised. the Department of Law OF
the George Washington University will
open its forty-seventh session Septem-
Der o. The attendance last year was
the largest since the school entered
s-upon it's present methods of teaching.
tnlargtngjts course with more rigid ELI
trance requirements in 1907.
Harvard, Columbia, and Chicago law
schools are models after which the
George Washington curriculum Is
made, to create a properly balanced
course, with eminent instructors, for
first-class legal education in the Dis
trict.
Success of George washington's can
didates at bar examinations of all
uity, the percentaoge of failures being
smaller, It is said, than those OF many
more prominent and better known law
schools
charge of the subjects OF the curricu-
lum dealing with substantive law, men
we'll trained by the famous case sys-
tem" in vogue at Harvard and having
supplemented their legal education By
several years of actual practice.
Prominent members of the Washing
ton bench and bar are instructors IN
Subjective law, courses dealing with the
actual administration Of law by tbs
courts.
Four Courses Offered.
Four courses in law are offered at the
Department of Law of George Wash
ington University. The preliminary
course is that leading to the degree of
IL. B.-bachelor Of laws. This is n
.three-year course OF twelve hours work
a week, with a maximum privilege OF
fifteen hours. Lectures in this course
are held mostly before noon each week
day.
Another course, with afternoon lee
lures, between 4:5O and $50 p. M, lead
ing to the LII. B. degree is also pro-
vided. This course may be extended
over four years at practically the same
cost
The instruction leading to the degree
of LII. M.-master of laws-is Of ten
hours each week Candidates for this
course must be at least tNenty-one
years old and hold bachelors degree
according TO the requirements, OF the
Association of American Law Schools.
special course in patent law Is pro-
vided. This course may be taken and
counted in the third-year course for the
bachelors degree or as part of the work
for the masters degree. Students OF
r other approved law schools or members
Of the bar also may take the patent law
course.
There also are four moot courts, held
IN specially equipped court rooms, In
realistic style, and presided over by
lawyers and judges OF experience, WITH
clerks, criers and jurors, the latter Sc
lected from the students themselves.
Every law student is required to par
ticipate in the moot courts, having cases
assigned to prepare and try for equip
ping him in professional life after grad
uation.
New Course Inaugurated.
Brief-making and preparation of legal
instruments are new courses of in
struction !naugurated last year at
George Washington and TO be elaborat-
ed upon extensively in the future The
students are taught and required to
draw such papers as an actual client
might demand. such as contracts of
various kinds, deeds, wills, mortgages,
partnership and Incorporation papers.
Moral and ethical training of students
Is not neglected at George Washington.
They are taught the ethical relations
between attorney and client. the canons
Of the American Bar Association being
the basis Of instruction.
Augmenting its instruction course,
George Washington has a law library
of $500 volumes, open for free access to
students between 9 a. m. and 10 p. m
Students also have access to the uneX-
- celled law library at the Congressional
. Library and the United States Supreme
Court, the finest in America.