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Rh name. Edward J. Ryan, a recent graduate of the school, is at present the Registrar. The Directory of the College has continued the same as at first constituted, with the exception of W. W. Cope and Delos Lake, who resigned, and whose places were filled by Robert P. Hastings, the present Dean, and Ralph C. Harrison. The course of instruction at the College has remained substantially the same as that introduced by Professor Pomeroy. The fol lowing will give an idea of its scope : — Junior Year. Elementary Law. A course of lectures, recita tions, and discussions, the object being to acquaint the student with the entire field of jurisprudence. Some considerable attention is paid to the works of Blackstone and Kent. Domestic Relations. A full consideration of the subject of Husband and Wife (including Mar riage and Divorce), Married Women (including particularly their power to contract, and their property rights), Parent and Child, Infants, Guar dian and Ward, and Master and Servant. Contracts. The general principles of the law of contracts. Real Property. The subject begun and com pleted. Torts. An outline of the law of torts. Middle Year. Commercial Law. The principal portion of the year is taken up with the important subjects of Sales, Bailments, Common Carriers and Telegraph Companies, Negotiable Instruments, Mercantile Guaranties and Suretyship, Insurance, Agency, Partnership, and Corporations. Wills and Administrations. Part of the year is devoted to Wills and the Administration of the Estates of Decedents, including the probate of wills, the appointment, powers, duties, and lia bilities of Executors and Administrators, and the settlement and distribution of Estates, particular ly with reference to the Statute Law of California. Senior Year. Pleading. A course on common law, equity and code pleading, including the manner of commencing actions, the place of trial and parties, with practical exercises. Practice. A considerable portion of the year is devoted to practice under the Code of Civil Pro cedure. This includes a study of the law of Ar rest and Bail, Claim and Delivery of Personal Property, Injunctions, Attachments, Receivers, Trials, Judgments, Executions, New Trials and Appeals, and the Writs of Certiorari, Mandamus and Prohibition, with practical exercises. Evidence. The general principles of the law of evidence. Equity. A course on equity jurisdiction and jurisprudence. Constitutional Law. Constitutional law of the United States. Legal Ethics. A course of ten lectures on legal ethics. Some notion of the exhaustiveness of the treatment and study of the subjects con sidered may be formed from the fact that the college year is nine months, and that there are no interruptions, with the excep tion of a recess of two weeks at Christmas. The aim is to make the student's theoreti cal knowledge as practically useful to him as possible. A Moot Court is established in which the members of the two upper classes participate. Each argument is presided over by a member of the Faculty and by some student. Briefs are required to be prepared and filed at the hearing, and an opinion is written by the student-justice under the direction of the professor in charge. Besides these exercises, students are required to draft papers relating to the subjects on which they may be engaged; such as leases, mortgages, deeds, and wills; and in the Senior year, pleadings, notices for various purposes, papers relating to the change of place of trial, papers on attach ment, injunction, etc. Occasional papers, such as criminal informations and indict ments, are also prepared. This practice has been found to be so valuable that it is hoped it may be extended in the future. The pro fessors in charge devote all the time they possibly can to it; but the work to be prop