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THE GREEN BAG

Law Quinquennial shows that although one page is enough to contain the names of one class in 1830, three pages are not enough in 1845; and as the attendance in one academic year sometimes reached one hun dred and fifty, the building could no longer accommodate the school. In 1845 Dane Hall was enlarged by adding at the back a part much larger than the original building. The old part was preserved without exterior change. The building as enlarged was, of course, a monument to the eminence of Story and Greenleaf. Yet in its new condition it was to be identified with new names. The building stood in the same form from 1845 to 1871. The three professors who were most nearly contem poraneous with that condition of Dane Hall were Joel Parker, professor from 1847 to 1868, Theophilus Parsons, from 1848 to 1869, and Emory Washburn, from 1856 to 1876. Other persons, including John C. Gray and C. C. Langdell, taught for a short time between 1845 an& 1871; but Dane Hall enlarged, standing on its original site, is necessarily identified with Parker, Parsons, and Washburn — the last two being widely known through their writings and the first being a teacher who was no less esteemed by the pupils of that day, and who, as Chief Justice of New Hampshire, must always be remembered in connection with the famous case of Britton v. Turner. •The next change in Dane Hall is the only architectural change in .the law school which does not represent a change in the school's needs. The numbers of the time of Story and Greenleaf were sustained, though not uniformly, throughout the time of -Parker, Parsons, and Washburn, but the numbers did not increase. The change that next took place in Dane Hall was rendered necessary by an increase in the dormitory accommo dations of Harvard College. What hap pened was no enlargement of Dane Hall, but simply a removal some seventy feet south ward in order to make room for Matthews Hall. The removal placed Dane Hall so

near the street that the portico and columns had to be sacrificed. This change was made in 1871. The building stood thus, unaltered in exterior appearance, but from time to time slightly remodeled inside, until the school removed in 1883; and the building presents nearly the same exterior appearance still. The extension in the rear held the library, including both the stack and the reading room. Above the library was the lecture room. The front part of the building was devoted partly to professors' studies. As has been indicated, the removal of Dane Hall from its original to its present site was caused by no change in the needs of the school. Yet by a strange chance this removal was substantially contemporaneous with the beginning of a change that was really a revolution, for it was in 1870 that Professor Langdell had become a professor. Further, by another strange chance, Dane Hall in this new site became closely identi fied with a new group of instructors. Omit ting the names of those who served for com paratively short times, one finds that throughout nearly the whole of the period from 1871 to 1883 instruction was given by John C. Gray, C. C. Langdell, J. B. Ames, and J. B. Thayer. To that Dane Hall and to that period and to that list of names must be conceded an intimate connection with the development of a new system of teaching law — the case system. It is to the case system, rather than to any increase in the number of students, that one must attribute the next change — the removal from Dane Hall and the building of Austin Hall. The case system had caused, or at least had encouraged, a great growth in the library and in the use of books by the students. It became the students' course of business to spend the whole day in the reading room. It was desirable to have a seat in that room for each student. Further, intimately connected with the introduction of the case system was the extension of the course to three years, necessitating more