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198 was opened, as appears from the University Calendar for the respective years.

The decrease in 1884-85 was no doubt occasioned largely by the lengthening of the period of study. For every subsequent year there has been a steady gain, this year the number going up to four hundred. While the Calendar of the University so states the figures, as a matter of fact the Law Announcement will show more than that number in attendance, and that since the Law School was opened there was never a larger body of students in attendance on its lectures than are there this year. Neither the rapid multiplication of law schools in different parts of the country, nor the fact that the standard required for admission and graduation has been materially advanced, have operated to decrease the number of students in attendance. Probably no law school in the United States has a longer roll of Alumni than has this. More than thirty-five hundred of its graduates have gone forth to the active duties of their profession. Mr Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court of the United States, has accepted an invitation, extended to him by the law alumni and undergraduates, to address them at the Commencement in June.

Those familiar with the Law School have noted with pleasure the fact that an increased number of college-trained men are here pursuing their law studies. The law students were quite jubilant because at a recent "Pronouncing Contest" held in University Hall, at which the Law and Literary Departments were represented by picked men, the banner of victory floated over the Law Department.

The Law Library is one of the best connected with the Law Schools of the United States. For a number of years it was of humble proportions, but it has within the last five years been much augmented and improved. It now contains about ten thousand volumes, embracing the reports of every State in the Union, as well as those of the Federal Courts, and a good collection of those of England, Ireland, and Canada. The current reports of the United States and of England are placed on the shelves as they are issued. The leading legal periodicals are regularly taken and kept on file, including the Law Quarterly Review (London), the Journal of Jurisprudence (Edinburgh), the Juridical Review (Edinburgh), the American Law Register, the American Law Review, the Criminal Law Magazine, the Albany Law Journal, the Central Law Journal, and the Federal Reporter. Students from any State in the Union are thus enabled not only to consult the reports of their own and other States, but to keep abreast of the best thought of the profession in this and other countries as it finds expression in the leading legal periodical literature, as well as in the