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 Columbia College Law School. obtain the degree of Bachelor of Laws by a two years' course in private law, with the addition of a third year either in private or public law, on passing the requisite final examination. For quite a number of years the Law School labored under the disadvantage of inadequate accommodations. This fact was partly due to an unexpected number of stu dents, and partly to a desire on the part of the Trustees to make temporary provisions until a suitable building could be erected. Such a building was constructed at great cost, on the block bounded by 49th and 50th Streets and Madison and Park Avenues. This block is entirely devoted to the uses of the College. The building is understood to be fireproof. The upper part of it is used for the College Library, while the lower rooms are assigned to the Law School. There are two large lecture-rooms, each hav ing a sufficient capacity to accommodate two hundred and fifty students, and suitable rooms for offices, etc. The library is open to all students every secular day in the year (with the exception of one or two days) from eight o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night. The law students in large numbers make use of the books, not merely in law, but in history and political science. The corps of instructors in the Law School at present (March, 1889) is as follows : Theo dore W. Dwight, Warden and Professor of the Law of Contracts, etc.; Benjamin Frank lin Lee, Professor of Real Estate and Equity Jurisprudence; George Chase, Professor of Criminal Law, Torts, Evidence, and Pro cedure; John W. Burgess, Professor of Constitutional History, International and Constitutional Law and Political Science; John Ordronaux, Professor of Medical Juris prudence; Robert D. Petty, Instructor in Municipal Law; Paul D. Cravath, Alfred Gandy Reeves, and Philo Perry Safford, Prize Tutors. Of this number, Professors Dwight and Chase make their professional work, as lawyers-, subordinate to attendance to Law School duties throughout the scho

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lastic year. A course of lectures on the Private Law of Corporations is in course of delivery by Victor Morawetz, Esq., of the New York Bar. The professorships in the third year's course have not as yet been definitely es tablished. It is, however, presumed that in the Elective Course in Constitutional and International Law instruction will be given by some of the professors in the existing de partment of Political Science; namely, Prof. John W. Burgess, Prof. Edmund Monroe Smith, lecturer on Roman Law and Com parative Jurisprudence, and Frank J. Goodnow, Professor of Administrative Law. Owing to the recent introduction of the third year's course, and the possible re arrangement and redistribution of studies to take place within a few weeks, it is not deemed expedient in this article to state the existing courses of study. It is altogether certain that the new courses will embrace all that has been heretofore taught in Con tracts, Real Estate, Equity Jurisprudence, Torts, Evidence, and Procedure, and as much more as can reasonably be brought within the increased time allotted to legal study. This extension of the course is largely due to the persistent and enlight ened efforts of Stephen P. Nash, Esq., an eminent practitioner at the New York Bar, to whom the Law School owes a permanent debt of gratitude. The success of the work of the Law School for the last thirty years must nat urally be shown by the character and work of its students and graduates. It must be remembered, however, that the oldest of them have but just reached middle life, while there are but few surviving who have passed the age of forty-five. The results of the work done here have certainly been highly satisfactory. The three Circuit Judges of the first and second judicial cir cuits, Judges Colt, Wallace, and Lacombe, were trained under the system prevailing here. A very large number of the younger men of promise and ability at the New York