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In order to meet the needs of the large class of law students who are in the government service at Washington, the authorities of the George Washington University Law Department have found it necessary to hold afternoon sections of all the classes given in the course, in addition to the forenoon sessions. To meet the additional work thus imposed upon the teaching staff of the Law Department, the Board of Trustees have appointed three additional members of the Faculty: Prof. J. C. Monnet, M. A., Iowa University, LL. B., Harvard, who will give his entire time to work of the Law Department; Justice Wendell P. Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and Justice J. A. Van Orsdel, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbla.

Professor Thomas A. Street, formerly a member of the Law Faculty of Vanderbilt University, has lately become connected with the Law Department of the University of Misssouri. The chair now occupied by him In this institution is that of Professor of Equity. During the six years preceding his recent appointment Mr. Street has been exclusively occupied with legal authorship. His chief work, hitherto, is Foundations of Legal Liability.

Few law schools in the country can boast of a faculty that is better balanced than the one that has been organized by President Jordan at Stanford University. This faculty is composed entirely of young men, who have been selected from the teaching forces of different law schools by reason of their scholarly legal attainments and ability to teach law. Although young in years, they all have had considerable experience in law school work, and are known by those posted on matters pertaining to legal education for their efficient and wide-awake methods in the class room. The faculty consists of Frederic C. Woodward (Executive Head), Charles II. Huberich, Arthur M. Cathcart, Wesley N. Holfeld, Joseph W. Bingham, and Chas. A. Huston.

The summer term of the University of Indiana School of Law shows the largest attendance that the school has ever had. The faculty of the summer school was of the same number as in the regular year's work, but the regular teaching force was not all in attendance; both Prof. Keedy and Prof. Hogate being absent. The Law School is now located in its new building, and Dean Hogate reports the enrollment for the fall term much larger than that of last year. The faculty remains the same as hitherto, excepting that Prof. Chester G. Vernier has gone to fill a chair in the law faculty of the University of

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Dean William Hoynes of the Law Department of the University of Notre Dame has been granted leave of absence for a year. A severe gunshot wound received during the war developed unusually alarming symptoms some months ago, and admonished him to take a vacation and spend as much time as practicable in the open air. The University authorities readily recognized the advisability of his doing so, and in acknowledgment of his devoted services for more than 25 years granted him leave of absence until next September. He intends to spend the winter in Egypt and Palestine and the summer in Europe.

The College of Law of Stetson University, at De Land, Florida, began its ninth year's work on September 30, 1908, and it promises to be the most successful year in its history. The registration already shows an increase of 20 per cent. over the entire registration of last year. Its faculty now consists of three men, who devote their entire time to the school. Dean Albert J. Farrah, who has been with the school since it was opened in 1900, is assisted by Assistant Professor Harry R. Truesler, an alumnus of the University of Michigan Law School, and Assistant Professor Henry N. Camp, Jr., a graduate of the Law Department of the University of Tenues

see.

Wm. Underhill Moore, of the University of Kansas, has been appointed Assistant Professor at Law in the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Moore entered Columbia College as a Freshman in the fall of 1896. He graduated from that school with the degree of A. B. in 1900 and A. M. in 1901. He received the degree of LL. B. in the Columbia University Law School in 1902. For several years Mr. Moore practiced law in New York City. In 1906 he gave a course in Mining Law in the Columbia University Law School,

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and in September, 1906, began work as an Associate Professor on the law faculty of the University of Kansas. While in the University of Kansas he taught Agency, Bills and Notes, Bailments and Carriers, Damages, Partnership, and Insurance. In the University of Wisconsin the subjects scheduled for Mr. Moore to teach are Suretyship, Bankruptcy, Criminal Law, Bills and Notes, and Conflict of Laws,

A lawyer was talking about the late Samuel C. T. Dodd, the Standard Oil lawyer, whose salary from the great corporation was $200,000 a year.

"Mr. Dodd," said the lawyer, "had an excellent legal talent. He it was, you know, who organized the Standard Oil trust. What further endeared him to Mr. Rockefeller were his strict views on the observation of the Sabbath. They tell a story about Dodd when he was a struggling practitioner in Franklin. There was a Franklin minister who went gunning a good deal, and altogether was rather a sporting character. At a little church supper one night the minister was boasting about his knowledge of horses and hunting, bis marksmanship, and so on, when Dodd interrupted him.

"You're a good sportsman, are you?' he

said.

"Well,' said the minister, not suspecting any trap, 'I am not a bad sportsman, if I do say it myself.'

"Yet,' said Dodd, 'if I were a bird, I could hide where there'd be no danger of your potting me.'

"'Where would you hide?' asked the minister.

"I'd hide,' Dodd answered, 'in your study.'"

The New Jersey Law School opened its doors in Newark, N. J., on the 5th day of October. This is the first law school to be established in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Law School was organized during the past summer in Newark for the purpose of giving a full and thorough course of instruction on the principles of jurisprudence and the practice of law, with special reference to the requirements in New Jersey. The lecture rooms of the school are located in the Prudential Building in Newark, thus furnishing a central location, easily accessible from all points. Percival G. Barnard is the Dean of the new school, and Charles M. Mason and Richard R. Currier are associated with him as members of the faculty, and will do a considerable part of the work in the class room.

The University of Maine School of Law has had this year the largest entering class

since its existence. The whole number of new men is 38. Of this number 12 are col lege graduates, or men with a college educa tion of three years or more, which is also the largest percentage of college men in the history of the law school. As far as states go, 19 of the new men are from Maine, 16 from Massachusetts, 2 from New Hampshire, and 1 from abroad. This shows that the influence of the school is not confined to Maine, but extends throughout New England. It has a vigorous life, and looks forward to a great future.

During the Summer Quarter a number of teachers from other schools took part in the instruction at the University of Chicago Law School. These included Professor Henry Schofield, Northwestern University: Professor Henry Moore Bates, University of Michigan; Professor Harry Sanger Richards, Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin; Professor Roscoe Pound, Northwestern University; Professor Frederic Camp bell Woodward, Acting Head of the Depart ment of Law, Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer sity; Associate Professor Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Leland Stanford, Jr., University: and Assistant Professor Edwin Roulette Kee dy, Indiana University.

Mr. Frank Hall Randall will assist Prof. Hayes in his work in the Law School of the State University of Iowa during the current year. Mr. Randall will give instruction in Torts the first semester and Real Property during the second. Mr. Randall was born at Irwin, Iowa, in 1877. He graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1902 with the degree of A. B., and from the College of Law of the same University in 1908 with the degree of LL. B., leaving a very high reputation for scholarship and capacity. He 'taught History and Latin for some five years in the High School of Iowa City, and taught History in the State University of Iowa for one semester. During the year 1907-08 be acted as coach to the Debating Teams of the University.

It is Secretary Bonaparte who tells this story. It is a favorite of his, so his friends say, but its most recent narration was to a Washington acquaintance, who thus repeats it.

"I was stopping last spring at the house of a friend in New York. He is a well-known lawyer and renowned for his knowledge of the law, but he is also a man of great physi cal strength. One afternoon we returned home early and the lawyer began telling his wife while their little son listened, cuddling against her knee-about a disturbance which we had just witnessed on lower Broadway.

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