Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
LAW ENROLMENT
|NCREASESAT c. U.
Registration Indicates Total
Will Be Well Above
Last Years.

Registration figures at the George
town University School Of Law. which
opens its sixty-first academic term the
middle of this month. were reported
already as being well in advance Of
last years record at this time.
Since the requirement of two years
of college work as a qualification for
admission, the law school at George
followed this policy, have benefited
not only from more mature and
earnest student body but the number
of students who now drop out before
the expiration of the four-year course
Is negligible. Georgetown's enrolment
this year is expected to exceed 500 stu
dents from universities in every State.
Dean George e. Hamilton, who has
been connected with the Law School
since his graduation in the FIRST class,
has emphasized to the younger grad
yates of the school the importance and
advantages to be derived from ad-
vanced legal training in the graduate
department. In addition to the two
years Of college work required of all
candidates for the degree of bachelor
of laws. candidates for admission to
the graduate school must be graduates
OF an approved law school,
Washington Becoming Center.
This graduate department opens on
September 81. The first department
to open at Georgetown. however, is the
late afternoon course, which COM
mences September 16. This course is
especially adapted to students who are
employed during the day For full
time students a morning course opens
September %.
Washington is becoming more and
more center for advanced studies
and educational research work, Dean
Hamilton points out. At Georgetown
OF $4,000 volumes. In addition, stu
dents engaged In research work have
available the historic archives Of the
university. the great laboratories and
the law libraries Of the Government
Another course opportunity for
seniors at the law school and graduates
of approved law schools. is the course
in patent law. This is under the super
vision of Thomas Ewing former United
States Commissioner Of Patents. Wash
ington is the logical center for the
practice of patent law. In the District
Court OF Appeals all the patent cases
are reviewed and the presence here of
the Patent once renders rare oppor-
tunities for students who wish to spe-
cialize in this phase of the law.
The Georgetown Law School is one
of the oldest and best known in this
section. Its graduates are numbered
not only among leaders of the bar in
the District, but among Government
officials and jurists In many States as
well as in Washington. The thorough
ness Of the course offered was demon
strated last June at the time of the
District bar examinations. Twenty
junior or third-year students Of George
town took these examinations ard of
the number II passed successfully,
Those naturally are qualified to practice
II they so desire.
Approved by U. s. Bar.
The law school enjoys the distinction
of being listed as an approved law
school by the Section of Legal Educa-
ton of the American Bar Association
and also Is a member of the AsSocia-
ton OF American Law Schools.
Among several new faculty members
this year is Daniel w. ODonoghue, IT,,
a graduate OF Georgetown and the Uni
verSity Of Southern California. He will
be quiz master in the course in equity,
which his father, Daniel w. ODono-
ghue, ST.. former president of the Dis
trict Bar Association, has taught for
years. Another Is Charles L. B. Lown-
des, also q Georgetown graduate, who
has just completed advanced studies at
Harvard Law School. Mr.. Lowndes for
merly taught at Georgetown and is to
lecture this year on taxation, a subject
Of tremendously increasing Importance.
Kew. Francis E. Lucy, S. j., professor
Of legal ethics, has succeeded Rev.
Themes B. Chetwood, S. j., as regent of
the law school,
Announcement was made that there
are now seven full-time professors on
the law faculty of more than IS mem
bers. Prof. James A. Toomey was given
full-time status this Summer and will
lecture on building notes, evidence and
domestic relations.