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Jurisdiction and Procedure in Equity Professor admission and for graduation and in the Langdell. Two hours a week. Langdell's quantity and order of the instruction, it is Cases in Equity Pleading. believed that Professor Langdell's chief con Property.1 Professor Gray. Two hours a week tribution to the cause of thorough legal edu Sales of Personal Property. Professor Thayer. cation was the introduction of an entirely new Two hours a week. Langdell's Cases on system of teaching law, — a system which Sales. was at first looked upon with great distrust Trusts. Professor Ames. Two hours a week. by his colleagues as well as by the bar, but Ames's Cases on Trusts. which, making converts from year to year, Third Year. has eventually established itself firmly at the Agency.1 Professor Keener. Two hours a week. school. Believing that law is a science, and Jurisdiction and Procedure in Equity. Professor recognizing that the source of our law is the Langdell. Two hours a week. Langdell's adjudicated cases, Professor Langdell de Cases on Equity Jurisdiction. clared that, like other sciences, the law was Partnership and Corporations. Professor Ames. to be learned only by going to the original Two hours a week. Ames's Cases on Part sources. It was there that the authors of nership. Suretyship and Mortgage.1 Professor Langdell. text-books had gained their knowledge of the law, and there only can others acquire it. Two hours a week. Constitutional Law.1 Professor Thayer. Two No instructor can provide the royal road to knowledge by giving to the student the con hours a week. Jurisdiction and Practice of United States Courts.1 I clusions deduced from these sources; his Professor Gray. One hour a week. chief aim should be to teach the student to [Law of Persons.1 Professor Gray. One hour a think in a legal manner in accordance with week.] the principles of the particular branch of the Omitted in 1888- 1889. law. He should seek to inculcate and de Wills and Administration.1 Professor Gray. One velop in legal reasoning the habit of intellec hour a week. tual self-reliance. The sphere of usefulness [Conflict of Laws.1 Professor Keener. One hour of the teacher of law according to this con a weekfor half the year. ception of his duty is not a narrow one. Omitted in 1888- 1889. [Points in Legal History.1 Professor Ames One Having gone over the ground which the student is to traverse, the teacher can, in the hour a weekfor half the year..] first place, aid the student by removing from Omitted in 1888- 1889. his consideration the great mass of cases on In addition to the foregoing third-year subjects, the particular subject which bore no part in third-year students may elect any second-year the development of the principle under dis subjects which they have not taken in their second cussion. Eliminating those, he selects the year. Every student who has been in the school cases especially worthy of study; and for the one year or more has an opportunity each year of arguing in a moot court case before one of the convenience of the student the select (not professors. leading) cases on the different subjects are Every candidate for the honor degree will be published as a collection. The principle upon required to take ten hours a week in each of the which such a collection is made was thus last two years. F'.very candidate for the ordinary stated by Professor Langdell in the preface degree will be required to take in the second year to his " Select Cases on Contracts," which ten hours a week in the subjects of that year, and appeared in October, 1871, — the first book in the third year eight hours a week. of the kind ever published : — Great as have been the advantages derived "Law, considered as a science, consists of cer from these changes in the requirements for tain principles or doctrines. To have such a mas tery of these as to be able to apply them with 1 No text-book.