Evening star., 1924-03-30
LAW SCHOOL OF G. u.
SOON TO BE CLASS A
Highest Rating Possible Expected
Next Year From Bar As
sociation.

The American Bar Association has
advised Dean George E. Hamilton of
,, the Georgetown University School of
Law that the law school has been
listed by the association in class b.
Next year. Dean Hamilton has been
notified, the school will be rated as
class A law school. and thus be
given the highest possible rating by
the American Bar Association.
This approval of the Georgetown
Law School places it among the lead
ing law schools of the country The
American Bar Association has ap-
proved only "a law schools out of
147 such institutions in the United
States.
The law school now requires one
year of college work for admission
and beginning in 1925 two years col
lege work will be required of all stu
dents entering as candidates for a
law degree.
New Four-Year Course.
Beginning the new scholastic year
next September, the law school will
have a four-year course for students
attending the late afternoon classes
and a three-year course for the morn
of forty-one law professors, including
number of distinguished judges and
lawyers. Included among these are
six full-time professors.
Georgetown points with pride to its
list Of distinguished law graduates,
who include members of Congress
and of the judiciary. The present
chief justices of three states, the
Governor of Rhode Island, justices of
various federal and state courts and
United States attorneys in many parts
of the country are included among
it's alumni.
Library OF 12.oOO Books.
The school takes pride in it's law
library of 10000 volumes, regarded
as the best law school library in
Washington. 1t contains complete
reports of the American, English and
Canadian courts and is being enlarged
at the rate of 500 volumes a year.
bronze tablet commemorating the
thirty-seven Georgetown law stu
dents who gave their lives in the
world war was erected by the senior
class of 1921 in the center panel of
the south alcove of the library.
For many years the Georgetown
school ranked first in the number of
bona fide students enrolled. but owing
to the fact that several years ago it
had to turn over its new addition to
house the School of Foreign Service,
it now has only limited accommoda-
tions. Despite this handicap, it has
1900 students enrolled this year and
is the largest law school in Washing
ton ana Stlll one or the largest IN
the United States. With the compile
ton of the Georgetown endowment
drive the law school will haye in
creased housing facilities.
Ralph A. Graves, assistant editor
of the National Geographic Maga
zine, will deliver the next public lee
ture at Georgetown University, the eve
ming of April 4, on The West Coast
of England" 1t will be elaborately
illustrated with views especially
taken by the National Geographic
Society.
Class Has French Dinner.
Prof. Labat's foreign service class
in advanced French initiated an in
teresting practice recently when it
held it's first French dinner, at the
Livera Restaurant. Twenty-Five stu
dents and faculty members, including
DIR. William F. NotZ, dean of the
school, and Thomas H. Healy, assist
ant dean, gathered at dinner, where
conversation only in French was per-
mitted. Other features planned by
the class include a prom and a
hike" when the conversation will
all be French.
The Mask and Bauble Club of
Georgetown University is rehearsing
several times a week, and the 0lee
Club will soon give it's Mi-Careme
concert Progress is being made with
the rehearsals of Hamlet" which
the Georgetown amateurs have Sc
lected as their first Offering.