Evening star., 1911-08-19
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
George Washington University
School to Open September ~,

The department of law of the George
Washington University will open for it's
forty-seventh session September 81 next.
following a most successful session. The
attendance during the past session was
the largest at any time since 1907, when
the school entered upon its present
methods of teaching. enlarged it's course,
and adopted more rigid requirements.
1t is the purpose OF this law school to
furnish first-class legal education in
the District of Columbia, along the lines
adopted and followed by the Harvard,
Columbia and Chicago Law Schools. With
this end in view, all substantive law sub
jects are in the charge of five resident In
structors, men trained by the case sys-
tenn for the profession of teaching and
having their education supplemented by
several years of practice. The courses
in the adjective law subjects-those deal
ing with the administration of law by the
courts-are conducted by members OF the
local bench and bar, who give to the
work the results of their invaluable ex-
perience in the practice.
Experience has shown that this policy
creates a properly balanced course.
Has Enviable Record.
The school, through the character of it's
instruction, has earned an enviable record
throughout the United States, and its
students experience no difficulty in get
ting credit in other institutions for their
work at George Washington. While its
in many of the states, the number of
trial is inappreciable, and a great number
of undergraduates have met with wonder
full success in such examinations.
The school offers the following courses:
1. A three-year day course, of twelve
hours per week, leading to the IL. IS. de-
gree, with the privilege of taking max
imum Of fifteen hours per week, and
counting all excess credits toward the
masters degree. The lectures in this
course are held mostly before Il O'Clock
noon each day.
2. A three-year afternoon course OF
twelve hours per week. leading to the
LIB. degree, with lectures between 4:JO
and $50 pm. This course may be ex-
tended over four years at practically the
same cost, il the student finds his time
does not permit its completion in three
years.
3. A graduate course OF ten hours per
week leading to the degree OF LII NJ Can
didates for this degree must be at least
twenty-one years of age and hold the de-
gree of LIB. from this school. or from
another institution which complies SUD-
stantially with the requirements of the
Association of American Law Schools.
4. Special course in patent law, which
may be taken and counted in the third
year of the course for the bachelors de-
gree or as part of the work for the mas
ter's degree. Students who are graduates
Of an approved law school. or who are
members of the bar in good standing,
may also be admitted to this course.
Applicants for admission as candidates
for the LII b. degree must be at least
eighteen years Of age and have had
preliminary training equivalent to four
wear high school course.
The most approved methods OF teaching
are used. The majority of the courses
are conducted by means of the so-called
lease system" the method originated by
the late Prof. c. c. Langdell of the Har-
ward Law School, where 1t has been fol-
lowed with marked success and from
which it has spread with astonishing
rapidity to the other leading law schools
Of the United States. BY this method
the student studies carefully selected
cases. arranged in historical and proper
topical order; makes abstracts of them,
upon which he recites in class and the
instructor, through class discussion and
the presentation Of hypothetical cases,
suggested by the assigned cases, brings
before the mind of the student the legal
principles involved more clearly and more
forcibly than is possible by the old