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 The Columbia Law School of To-day. and equity — are carried progressively through the three years of the course; the training of each year fitting the student for the more difficult applications of his subject in the ensuing year. With the same pur pose the practice courses — such as evi dence, code pleading and practice, etc., are deferred to such time as the student shall have gained considerable familiarity with legal doctrine, and it is then that the great est emphasis is placed on the work of the moot courts and upon the statutory and other peculiar developments of New York law. It is thus possible to give the practice courses more and more the character of an office apprenticeship — mere comprehen sive, it is believed, than is usually afforded the beginner in a busy law-office — plead ings, petitions, orders and other papers being actually drawn by the students and criticised in the class. This practical ex perience, gained under the direction of the professor having the practice courses in charge, is admirably supplemented by the work of the numerous club courts, organized and conducted by the students, which, be ginning in the first year, reach their greatest activity and highest efficiency in the second and third years. The natural development of the curriculum, believed to have been attained in its present arrangement, has thus been found to result in a similar develop ment of the mind of the student and of his practical ability to apply the learning to which he has devoted himself. The course of study for the ensuing year is as follows : COURSE OF INSTRUCTION FIRST YEAR Hours

Elements of Jurisprudence. Prof. Keener Per•) Week Equity : The Origin and Nature of Equity, j Hills of Peace, Interpleader, Quia Timet, J. 2 Removal of Cloud upon Title, the Jurisdic tion of Equity over Torts. Prof. Keener J Contracts. Mr. Terry .... 4 Real and Personal Property. Prof. Kirchwey 2 Torts. Prof. Burdick .... 2

207 Hours Per Week

Criminal Law and Procedure. Prof. Moore Common Law Pleading and Practice. Prof. Hardon ...... Domestic Relations and Law of Persons. Mr. Noble ......

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SECOND YEAR

Equity : The Jurisdiction of Equity over Torts; Trusts. Prof. Keener ... Quasi-Contracts. Prof. Kirchwey . . Real and Personal Property. Prof. Kirchwey Agency. Prof. Canfield .... Bailments and Carriers. Mr. Noble . Negotiable Paper. Prof. Hurdick . . Sales of Personal Property. Prof. Hurdick Equity Pleading and Practice. Prof. Hardon Code Practice. Prof. Hardon. . . Administrative Law. Prof. Goodnow . Comparative Constitutional Law. Prof. Burgess Institutes of Roman Law. Prof. Smith .

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THIRD YEAR

Equity : The Jurisdiction of Equity over Con tracts, including Specific Performance, Reformation and Rescission; Account; Equitable Conversion. Prof. Keener. Corporations. Prof. Keener ... Evidence. Prof. Canfield ... Partnership. Prof. Hurdick ... Real and Personal Property. Prof. Kirchwey Code Pleading and Practice. Prof. Hardon Suretyship and Mortgage. Profs. Burdick and Kirchwey ..... Wills and Administration. Prof. Hardon. Insurance. Mr. Noble .... Doctrines Peculiar to New York Law : Trusts of Real and Personal Property, Powers, Perpetuities, Charitable Devises and Bequests, Accumulations, etc. Prof. Canfield International Law. Prof. Moore . . Comparative Jurisprudence. Prof. Smith. Conflict of Private Law. Prof. Smith . Municipal Corporations. Prof. Goodnow. Law of Taxation. Prof. Goodnow. ..

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Hardly second in importance to this re form of the curriculum has been the steady raising of the standard of admission to the school. The student who presents himself for admission to the first year class to-day must show substantially the training and acquirements of a college freshman, either by the presentation of an appropriate certi ficate of the Regents of the University of the State of New York or by passing the regular examination for admission to the sophomore class of Columbia College. But what has been accomplished in that direc-