Evening star., 1917-09-27
c. v. j. LAW SCHOOL
BEGINS ITS SD YEAR
Formal Exercises Held in Main Lee
ture Hall-Enrollment Surpasses
Number Last Year.

Formal exercises in the main lecture
hall of the George Washington Univer-
sity Law School in New Masonic Tenn
pie last night ushered IN the fifty-thfrd
wear for the institution. Prof. William
C. Van Week, secretary of the law
school. announced that the enrolment
would far surpass that of last year, in
spite of the fact that the forenoon
classes have been discontinued. The in
crease is believed due to the large in
fiux of extra government clerks since
the United States entered the war.
Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stock
ton. U. S. n, retired. president of the
university, presided. Addresses We're
delivered by Felix Frankfurter, profess
sor of law in Harvard University, but
now on leave and acting as confidential
adviser to Secretary OF War Baker;
Justice Wendell =. Stafford of the Dis
trict Supreme Court; Prof. Merton Le-
roy Ferson, acting dean of the law
school. and members of the faculty.
Members of the faculty and students
wer> introduced to two new professors,
Charles S. Collier and Merrill l. Seine
bly,
"Justice is undoubtedly the dearest
interest that men possess Justice STAFF
ford said. There is only one thing
more important than to get justice and
that is to do justice. Law is the or
ganized attempt to get and to do jus
tice. Governments are established TO
secure the rights of men through law.
Nations exist to secure the rights of
their citizens as recognized by inter-
national law. The efficacy of law de-
pends upon the force behind it. In
times of peace we are apt to forget 1t,
but in times Of war the fact makes
Itself plain. We who regard the CEN
trail powers the arch law breakers
and law defiers of our day have a right
to look upon the armies arrayed against
them as the posse comitatus of the
civilized world going out to execute
the law. Those of our number who
are engaged in this duty are devoting
themselves to the law. no less truly.
and. we believe. to far better purpose,
than as If they were here.
There is such thing as a patriotism
of the race, and that. we believe, is
what Is rallying the free peoples of
the earth today, fighting for the lib
erty of the world, for the freedom of
man. for the independence of all na-
tions great and small, for the right of
each to work out its own destiny in its
own free way, for the final and per-
inanent establishment of liberty under
law"
Announcement was made that the
afternoon classes would meet from
to $40 o'clock this year instead of
from 4:50 to $50. the hours observed
last year. course in public service
companies and the Interstate commerce
act. which was given for the first time
last year. will be repeated this year,
the class meeting in the early morn
ing from $50 to $40 o'clock.
In the department of economics new
courses are being given this year on
corporation finance. the history of
commerce, the economic background of
world politics, government control of
commerce and industry and accounting.
These courses will be given by Assist
ant Prof. C. c. Kochenderfer A. NJ,
who comes to George Washington from
Cornell University.
In Teachers College. an essentially
new course on the problems of social
and moral education will be given by
Prof. Arthur d. Call according to an
nouncement by Dean William Carl
Ruediger.