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as candidates for the degree of LL.B. has been taken under consideration. The submitted plan contemplates two years of collegiate study, or the completion of the sophomore year, as a prerequisite for enrollment as regular students of the law course. Such test would not, however, be applied in the case of those who might wish to attend class for general instruction, or the better to equip themselves for business, and not with a view to graduation or the practice of law.

It is rumored that the University of Notre Dame will establish in the near future another law school, making it a department of the Columbia University, at Portland, Oregon. This Institution is a branch of the University of Notre Dame and conducted under like methods and auspices. There are other collegiate branches of Notre Dame at Watertown, Wis., Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, D. C., New Orleans, La., Austin, Tex., and Montreal, Canada. A new law school may be established in Portland or New Orleans. Should definite action be taken in the matter, Dean Hoynes of the University of Notre Dame would probably be commissioned to organize and put it in effective working order, as he has had much experience in this line.

Battling Nelson, athlete, author, politician, taxpayer, and many times opponent of the late Joseph Gans in the square ring, having secured a room through his agent, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the city of Philadelphia, was able to occupy it but one night, as the next morning his belongings were removed from the room and in the evening when he applied for another room he was refused accommodations point-blank. For this indignity he sued the hotel proprietor in the federal court. Nelson v. Boldt, 180 Federal Reporter, 779. On the trial the jury were instructed by the judge as follows:

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"When a traveler presents himself at an inn, it is the duty of the innkeeper to accommodate him if he be a fit person to be admitted and receive accommodation; it being the innkeeper's duty to receive into his house all strangers and travelers who may call for entertainment, provided he has rooms, and they tender him a reasonable sum for the accommodation demanded. The innkeeper, however, can refuse to admit any one, if he pleases, rendering himself liable in an action for any injury the stranger may sustain. If he refuses to entertain stranger or a traveler for a good reason, he is not liable for damages, as the law only requires him to entertain fit persons. It is also the duty of an innkeeper to protect his guests against the intrusion of boisterous, objectionable characters and persons intoxicated, and such persons may be rejected. Where objection to admitting a guest is based on the fact that the guest is committing a breach of the peace, or is intoxicated. the innkeeper's justification may be determined by the court as a matter of law, but when the question is as to the guest's character or reputation, and his standing as a reputable person, the question is for the jury; that if the jury believed that plaintiff was not a law-abiding citizen, but at the time was engaged in a business which was in violation of

the laws of the various states of the United States, then the jury would be authorized in finding that he was not such a proper person as was entitled to enforce a legal right to be admitted to a hotel in the state of Pennsylvania, and defendants would be justified in refusing to give him such accommodations as he demanded at that time, it being no answer that other hotels would accommodate him. The evidence reviewed by the court to the jury indicated that plaintiff, while claiming to be engaged in athletics and looking after real estate, had in fact represented himself in his own biography as the champion lightweight prize fighter of the world up to February 22, 1910. It also appeared that he had engaged in nearly a hundred hotly contested battles which were such as to be prohibited by the laws of the state of Pennsylvania and of other states, by which such contests are made a criminal offense. The court thereupon charged that it was for the jury to say whether a violator of the criminal laws of the various states, such as the evidence showed plaintiff was, would be a reputable person to be admitted to a hotel in Pennsylvania under the law as previously stated, and that, if the jury conclude that he was not, he could not recover.'

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The jury found a verdict in favor of the landlord.

On February 22d of this year, the new building of the Law Department of Georgetown University was formally opened, the opening exercises being held at Gaston Alumni Memorial Hall. The formal presentation of the building to the President and Faculty was made by George E. Hamilton, the Chairman of the Building Committee. The principal address was made by Hon. George W. Wickersham, the Attorney General of the United States, whose subject was: "The Law, and the Study of the Law." The addition to the Law School building gives the school much-needed accommodation. The building as it stands now has eight large well-lighted and well-ventilated classrooms and large and commodious library facilities, thereby making it possible to divide the classes into sections in order that each individual student will receive greater personal attention from the professors. The rapid growth of this school within the last few years made the addition necessary, as this year the Law Department has registered seven hundred and fifty men, and has a faculty of thirty-five professors and instructors, making it one of the largest schools in the country.

The New York Sun recently reported that one hundred and twenty-two duels have been arranged between students of the Law College, Grosswardein, in Hungary, and all because one of their number had the bad taste to appear at a ball in a blue serge suit and yellow leather boots. The offender attended the recent congress of Hungarian students at Klausenberg as representative of the Grosswardein Law College, and the ball was one of the festivities organized in connection with the affair.

When the Grosswardein students heard that their representative had been guilty of such a breach of etiquette a mass meeting was held to discuss the question. Divergence of opinion regarding the gravity of the crime soon manifested itself, words gave way to blows, and before the meeting dispersed 122 challenges to duels were made and accepted.

In the good old town of Milwaukee, where 2,000 saloons thrive, Albert Peter Hopp, a saloonkeeper and applicant for citizenship, keeps his saloon open in violation of the state Sunday closing act. For more than 40 years the act has been on the statute books, but during all of that time the saloons have been kept open on the Sabbath Day, without concealment or disguise. Public sentiment in Milwaukee favors this. The question in Re Hopp, 179 Federal Reporter, 561, is whether, under these circumstances, Hopp has behaved himself as a man of good moral character, essential under the naturalization act. Judge Quarles, of the United States District Court, holds that Hopp should not be denied citizenship because he has fallen in with the general public sentiment of the community in which he lives; it not being a fair construction of the naturalization act to require him to rise above his environment, and show by his behavior that his moral character was above the level of the average citizen.

The University of Wisconsin Law School offers an unusually attractive program in Public and Private Law for its Summer Session of 1911. In addition to the courses in Private Law to be offered, which include the subjects of Contracts, Torts, Bankruptcy, Damages, and Wills, special courses will be given in Constitutional Law, the Law of Public Officers, and International Law. The course in Constitutional Law will be given by James Parker Hall, Dean of the University of Chicago Law School. The course in Bankruptcy will be offered by Edward R. Keedy of the Northwestern University Law School; and the course in International Law will be given by James Brown Scott, of Washington, D. C., formerly solicitor of the Department of State, and who on April 1st assumed his new position as secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Scott was formerly professor of law at Columbia University, and at present is connected with George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University as professor of International Law. Professors Gilmore, Richards, and Smith and Instructor Rundell are the members of the local faculty who will offer courses at the Summer Session.

The Legislature of Oklahoma has passed, and the Governor of the state has signed, a bill providing for a $125,000 Law Building for the University of Oklahoma. Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, of Chicago, have been employed as architects for the new building. The plans will be matured and the building commenced soon. These architects designed all of the buildings for the University of Chicago, the new Langdell Law School Building at Harvard University, and other important college buildings throughout the country. The new Law School Building for the University of Oklahoma will be a modern and thoroughly up-to-date structure, embodying the best ideas of all recently constructed law school buildings. Next season a full three-year course of instruction will be given and the organization of the Law School will be complete. It is expected that at least 150 law students will be in attendance at the University of Oklahoma next year. Dean J. C. Monnett and his associates are to be congratulated on the remarkable growth of this new Law School in so short a period of time.

George Edgar Vincent, the new president of the University of Minnesota, was born March 21, 1864, at Rockford Ill. He is the son of John Heyl and Elizabeth Dusenbury Vincent. Mr. Vincent attended the public schools of Plainfield, N. J., and spent one year at Pingery's Academy, at Elizabeth, N. J. He entered Yale in the fall of 1881, and graduated in 1885. After graduation he engaged in editorial work for a year, and then traveled in Europe and the East. In 1886 he became literary editor of the Chautauqua Press, and two years later vice principal of Chautauqua. In 1892 Dr. Vincent was called to the University of Chicago as fellow in sociology. In 1894 he was made assistant in sociology; in 1895, instructor in sociology; and from 1896 to 1900 he was assistant professor in the department. Dr. Vincent received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1896. In 1898 he became principal of instruction in Chautauqua. From 1900 to 1904 he was associate professor of sociology, and in 1904 was made professor of sociology. At the time he became associate professor, Dr. Vincent was made dean of the junior colleges, a position which he held for seven years. In 1907 he became president of the Chautauqua, and the same year was made dean of the faculties of arts, literature, and science. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Chicago at the spring convocation of 1911. Dr. Vincent is the author of a number of books and a large number of contributions to current sociological journals. In collaboration with Professor A. W. Small he wrote "An Intro

duction to the Study of Society." Later he wrote "The Social Mind in Education."

Wearing a heavy crape veil, one Mary Adams boarded defendant's train and was conducted to a seat by the brakeman, both unaware of a suit case which had been placed in the rack overhead. She had traveled but 12 miles when it fell upon her, inflicting a serious injury, to recover for which she brought suit. The Court of Appeals of Kentucky in Adams v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 121 Southwestern Reporter, 419, in reversing the judgment of dismissal, holds that as the suit case protruded five or six inches beyond the edge of the rack, and was fourteen inches wide, a very slight movement would throw its center of gravity outside of the rack, and that it was a question for the jury whether the trainmen by the exercise of ordinary case should not have apprehended danger to a passenger sitting beneath. Both the conductor and brakeman had been through the car three or four times while plaintiff was sitting in the seat. That they did not see the suit case in the rack is held not conclusive that defendant is not liable, since those in charge of a passenger train cannot shut their eyes to the condition of the car, and must exercise ordinary care for the safety of the passengers.

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Extensive changes are in contemplation at the Suffolk School of Law of Boston. ginning next September the school will consist of two departments of law-a day law school with a three-year course of instruction and an evening law school with a fouryear course. The school will retain its present name and will occupy the same premises as formerly. Each department will have its own faculty, but the two departments will be united under the supervision of Dean Gleason L. Archer and a Board of Trustees. The methods of instruction in the two departments will differ to a considerable extent, although the system of instruction for which the Suffolk School of Law has stood in the past will form the basis of instruction in each. This will be the first day and evening law school in New England.

The students of the Suffolk School of Law are publishing a monthly newspaper. Each class is represented on the editorial board; representatives of the Junior Class, however, assuming the business management of the paper. A special article by a member of the faculty, usually by the Dean, is a regular feature of the paper. Essays by students of the school on legal topics, together with editorials, school and class news, and

jokes, comprise the subject-matter of the paper. No advertising has been permitted in its columns. A glance at the titles of essays that have appeared in the paper reveal the following: “My Object in Studying Law," "Why I Began the Study of Law," "Advantages of To-day," "The Uplifting of the Legal Profession," "Motive," "Future Possibilities of the Lawyer," etc., all from students of the school. While not all of these articles are classics in form, yet they have served to stimulate enthusiasm among the students and to encourage them in endeavoring to use correct and concise English.

On account of the death of N. Thurston Abbott, Professor of Law, Boston University, it became necessary last fall to make three new appointments to the faculty of the Law School. Mr. Harry Clinton Saw

yer was appointed lecturer in Evidence; Dr. Harold M. Bowman, lecturer in Property; and Professor Edward A. Harriman, lecturer in Contracts.

Harry C. Sawyer was born in Fitchburg, Mass., Jan. 24, 1878. He was graduated from Boston University School of Law lu June, 1899, with the degree LL. B. (magna cum laude). Since that time he has been engaged in active practice in Boston, and is at present Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County.

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Harold M. Bowman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 17, 1876. He obtained the degrees A. M. and LL. B. from the University of Michigan, and the degree Ph. D. from Columbia University. He had experience as a graduate student, in teaching Commercial Law at the University of Michigan. taught Law and Government at Dartmouth College, 1903-06, as Assistant Professor of Political Science. He was appointed Expert Special Agent of Interstate Commerce Commission in 1904, and to the same position in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce in 1905. In these capacities he made investigations in railroad valuation and taxation, and in railroad discriminations. He has been editorial writer on the New York Globe since 1906. He is author of "The Administration of Iowa," and of various articles and reviews in Political Science Quarterly, Michigan Law Review, Columbia Law Review, etc.

Edward A. Harriman was born in Framingham, Mass., Dec. 31, 1869. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1888; from the Boston University School of Law in 1891. He was Professor of Law in Northwestern University from 1892 to 1901. Since 1901 he has been engaged in the general practice of law in Connecticut. He is also lecturer in the Yale Law School. He is author of "Law on Contracts," 1896 and 1901, and editor of "Greenleaf on Evidence," vols. 2 and 3, 16th edition, 1899.

The University of Maine College of Law has added to its faculty Hon. Edward Harward Blake, LL. D., as Lecturer on Admiralty Law, Hon. Isaac W. Dyer, B. A., as Lecturer on Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure, and Hon. Herbert M. Heath, M. A., as Lecturer on Cross-Examination, appointments that have increased the hold of the Law School upon the people of the state of Maine and improved the teaching staff of the institution.

The Maine Law Review, a legal magazine published by the students of the school, with an ever-increasing number of contributors, among whom are men like Chief Justice L. A. Emery, of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, Judge Levi Turner, of the Superior Court of Portland, and many other well-known writers, is about to enter upon its fifth year. The number of its subscribers has been increasing with every month, its financial position has been firmly established, and the Maine Law Review bids fair to become one of the leading legal magazines of the country.

The Summer Session of the University of Michigan Law School begins this year on Monday, June 26th, and continues for ten weeks. The opening time is one week earlier than in the other Departments of the University, because of the necessity for longer courses. The Summer Faculty will consist of Professors Knowlton, Bogle, Lane, Bunker, Sunderland, Drake, Stoner, Aigler, and McLucas. The following courses will be offered: Contracts, Elementary Law, Personal Property, Criminal Procedure, Torts, Sales, Corporations, Damages, Evidence, Partnership, Real Property, and Common-Law Pleading.

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rooms in the Ellsworth Building, is now nearing the successful close of its premier year's work and points with pride to the results of its well-directed labor. There is a constantly growing student body, full of appreciation for the energy and enthusiastic labor of the faculty and the careful and patient direction of the school officers in executing the plan of courses. The school is rich in an experienced faculty, both as instructors and as practitioners, who, bringing their knowledge and skill to a body of students who have a real desire to learn, coupled with a persistent effort to make the most of their opportunities, have presented a combination that makes for a success that will not be denied. The school has successfully conducted a few special courses, such as Examination of Abstracts, which has met with the patronage from some of the younger members of the bar. Similar courses of a practical nature are planned for the coming year.

In the Cornell University Law School a change has been made in the arrangement of the courses in Admiralty, Patent Law, and Bankruptcy given by Judge Holt, William Macomber, and William H. Hotchkiss, respectively. Heretofore the Bankruptcy course has been given each year to the seniors alone. The courses in Admiralty and Patent Law have been given only once in three years, and have been open to all students. Hereafter each of the three courses will be given once in two years, and will be required of both juniors and seniors. The courses in Admiralty and Bankruptcy have been given this year; the course in Patent Law will be given next year.

The San Francisco Law School is making preparations for a large first-year class next fall, as the number of applications already on file indicates that, notwithstanding the more severe entrance requirements, the school is rapidly growing in popularity.

It is expected that all of the old faculty will be secured for the ensuing year, with possibly one or two additions. Mr. Robert W. Harrison will in all probability give the courses in Wills and Sales, which he has taught for several years. Dean Ballentine will continue his courses in Corporations and Torts. Arrangements are being made to add a course in Criminal Procedure, under the supervision of Mr. Benjamin I. Bloch, former Assistant District Attorney, who is now giving the course in Criminal Law. The course in Equity will be in charge of Mr. Leo H. Susman, who gave a very successful course two years ago. There will be no change in the officers, and Mr. C. R. Stevens will act as Secretary for the coming year. Improvements are being planned, and an effort will be made to enlarge the library.

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The school has passed the hundred mark in attendance, and ranks well among the Western law schools.

The University of California gives a six weeks Summer Session every year. Last year it was attended by over one thousand students. The courses in law announced this year are (1) Elementary Law, by the regular instructor therein, Carlos G. White, J. D., University of California, 1906, and lately Assistant United States District Attorney ; (2) Contracts, by Henry W. Ballentine, LL. B., Harvard, and formerly lecturer in the University of California Law School, and now practicing law in San Francisco; (3) Persons and (4) Future Interests, both the latter by Professor Albert M. Kales, of Northwestern University Law School. It is the policy to invite each year one distinguished law professor from another law school, and much interest is being taken in the prospect of hearing Professor Kales' lectures.

A great amount of attention and care is being paid to a series of publications known as "University of Pennsylvania Publications, Law School Series." The authors will be connected with the University of Pennsylvania Law School as members of the teaching force, fellows, or graduate members. Two numbers of the Series have already been issued: First, the "Translation of the Japanese Commercial Code," with extensive notes explaining its provisions, and comparisons with the Commercial Codes of the continent of Europe; second, the "History of the Courts of Pennsylvania."

The following publications will appear within the next year: "Workman's Compensation Acts," "Constitutional Questions Involved in Federal Incorporations," "Foreign Corporations," and "Sources of the Common

Law."

The Summer Quarter of the University of Chicago Law School begins June 19th and ends September 1st. The first term ends July 26th. The following courses will be given: Torts, by Dean Hall; Title to Real Estate, and Administrative Law, by Professor Freund; Code Pleading, by Professor Whittier; Trusts, by Professor Mack; Wills, by Professor Vance, of Yale University, formerly Dean of George Washington Law School; Quasi Contracts, by Professor Cathcart, of Stanford University; Criminal Law, by Professor Vernier, of Indiana University; and Mortgages, by Dean Monnet, of the University of Oklahoma.

Judge Julian W. Mack, of the University of Chicago Law School, who was recently

appointed United States Circuit Judge assigned to the Commerce Court in Washington, D. C., has entered upon his new judicial duties. He will give instruction in the University of Chicago Law School hereafter during the Summer Quarters only, alternating Bills and Notes and Trusts, the two subjects he has taught in the school for the past nine years.

The new General Library of the University of Chicago is nearing completion. It forms the south side of one of the quadrangles upon the Midway, and is connected by stone bridges with the Law School Library at one end and with the Divinity School Library at the other, thus giving easy access between the principal collections of books owned by the University. The building will probably be dedicated in October.

Not long ago a young lawyer of Baltimore undertook the defense of an old negro who had been arrested for "helpin' hisself without askin'," and who in slavery days had once been owned by the young man's father. It was his first case, and his defense was not brilliant, either in construction or in delivery. The old darkey received no mercy, his guilt being clearly proved.

"T'ank you, sah," the prisoner addressed the judge, cheerfully, after the sentence had been pronounced. "Tain't anywhar near's bad as I s'pected, sah. I t'ought sure, 'tween my character and pore Marse Frank's speech, dey'd hang me for sartain."

Lawyer (cross-examining witness in suit for damages in railroad accident)-You were present on the occasion when the train in question ran over the deceased.

Witness-Yes, sir.

Lawyer-Well, then, will you please give the court your estimate as to the rate of speed that train was going at the time?

Witness-To tell the truth, I am hardly prepared to say just how fast it was going.

Lawyer No? But you are surely willing to swear that it was going at a rate too fast for the public safety, are you not?

Witness-Well, now, as to the case in point, I am rather of the opinion that it wasn't going fast enough; if it had been going just a little faster it would have passed the crossing before the deceased got there, and he would naturally escape unhurt.

I. Maurice Wormser has been added to the teaching force of the University of Illinois Law School, and began instruction in the courses of Real Property and Municipal Cor porations last February, at the commence

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