Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
\. i. LAW SCHOOL
TESTS SOON DUE
Examinations for Fall Term
! TO Begin Saturday and
Continue for Week.

Examinations for the Fail term ut
National University Law School will
begin next Saturday and will continue
through the following week until Fri
dav. December %. according to an an
nounccment yesterday by university
authorities. Examinations will last
two hours each and will begin at J
pm. with the exception OF tho test
in interstate commerce law. which will
be held at o'clock next Saturday
morning.
The following tentative schedule Of
examinations has been arranged 10y
the faculty committee:
Saturday. December 17-Principles
OF legal liability, historical survey. al
miralty law, interstate commerce law
and modern church law.
Monday. December 19-PartncrShlp.
sales, statutory remedies and patent
law.
Tuesday. December 90 Contracts,
agency and Federal Trade Commission.
Wednesday. December 2l-Rcal prop
ertv, text: conflict of laws and eN-
traordinarv remedies.
Thursday. December % - Domestic
relations case analysis and medical
jurisprudence.
Friday. December 23-Real property.
cases; review course and insurance.
Program for December Il.
Examinations in the School Of Eco
Monies and Government Will begin
Wednesday. December Il. and will con
tinue through Friday. December Ii, IT
has been announced. These eNamina-
tons will be held at the regular reel
tation periods.
Warren Bishop, managing editor Of
Nations Business. will address stu
dents of the School of Economics and
Government Wednesday on How 10
Read n Newspaper"
Designs for the art work on the
Docket. annual publication of the
senior class, have been approved. ac-
Cording to William l.. Bruckart. editor
These designs include those for the
cover and inside pages
The first term of the legal practice
class under Prof. Godfrey Muntcr
has proven a big success among sen
Tors. During the present term the
class has studied the activities of the
Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia. as we'll as the proceedings of
the Municipal Court. This course has
been designed for the purpose of Civ
ing the students a means of acquiring
much valuable information which
otherwise only could he cleaned by
actual practice in the court.
Visits Municipal Court
The class recently visited the AIu-
nicipal Court. where it was received
by Miss Blanche Neff clerk of the
court. and later by Judge George {.
Aukam. Judge Aukam explained GER
tain features of landlord and tenant
proceedings and told of other prac-
tees of the court
During the Winter quarter the class
will make trips to other courts To-
Gated in the District.
Announcement has been made by
school authorities of the admission to
the Idaho and Utah bars of y. y.
Merrill a graduate of National Uni.
versitv. who received his LII. r. de-
gree last June.
Debates between the John Marshall
Law Club and the Miller and Alvey
Debating Societies will take place
during the Winter quarter. Arrange
ments for debates with the Rocky
Mountain Law Club and the Philip
pine Columbians now are pending.
The club also is anxious TO sched-
ule a debate with the Cy Press Club,
organization Of women students of
National University. To this end. the
club has offered a prize of a leather
bound law volume to the woman adj
judged the best speaker in public
debate with the club. The challenge,
however. has been declined. according
TO members of the John Marshall
Club.
Other Debates Sought.
The organization hopes to schedule
a number of other debates for the
Winter quarter and announces that
every effort in this direction will be
made early in 1928.
A large number of seniors at Ma
.tional University are contemplating
taking the bar examinations of the
District of Columbia. which are being
held during the present month. In
order to prepare those VINO are TO take
the examinations. o. l.. Mohundro
professor of interstate commerce law
and an examiner of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. has given a
series of six special lectures. The last
of these lectures was given Wednes
day morning.
The calendar of the moot court Of
National University was completed
Friday night when the only remain
ing jury case was tried. The moot
court. presided over by Prof. Glenn
NlLetL mas Drought out Il hummer q!
exceptional public speakers during
the present term. Among these are
Robert May, Earl J. Soelberg. editor
OF the National University Law Re
view: A. r. Townshend. jr.; Virgil
Wallace and Keith Meyer.
Seniors Seen at Moot" Bar
Only seniors are allowed to appear
before the bar of the moot court as
trial lawyers. Witnesses in the moot
courts are supplied by the junior
class while jUries are chosen from
among The freshmen. Last year there
were 354 cases disposed of in the moot
court OF law alone. There are two
other moot branches. the equity court
end the probate court. In addition,
there is a court of appeals.
Charles NJ. Neff, professor of equity
cases a. National University. now il
with the Department of State working
on cases arising in the Mexican
American Claims Commission Prof
Neff until recently was counsel for the
Federal Trade Commission.