THE

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

The Department of Law.

HON. WILLIAM S. PATTEE, LL. D., Dean of the Department and
Professor of the Law of Contracts.

FRANK B. KELLOGG, Lecturer on Equity Jurisprudence and Pro-
cedure.

CHARLES L. WILLARD, LL. B., Lecturer on the Law of Bailments. JUDGE JAMES O. PIERCE. Lecturer on Constitutional Jurisprudence and History.

HON. C. D. O'BRIEN, Lecturer on Criminal Law and Procedure.
CHARLES W. BUNN. LL. B., Lecturer on Suretyship and Mortgages
and Practice in the United States Courts.

HON. GEORGE B. YOUNG, A. M., LL. B., Lecturer on the Conflict of
Laws.

SELDEN BACON, LL. B., Lecturer on Civil Procedure, including Evi-
dence.

CHAS. B. ELLIOTT, Ph. D., Lecturer on Corporations and Insurance.
HON. JOHN DAY SMITH, Lecturer on American Constitutional Law.
HON. H. F. STEVENS, Lecturer on the Law of Real Property.

T. DWIGHT MERWIN, A. B., Lecturer on Patent Law.

JAMES PAIGE, LL. B., Lecturer on Domestic Relations, and Quiz

Master.

EDWIN A. JAGGARD, Lecturer on Taxation and Torts.

LEGAL EDUCATION.

"There is little, if any, dispute now as to the relative merit of education by means of law schools, and that to be gotten by mere practical training or apprenticeship as an attorney's clerk. Without disparagement of mere practical advantage, the verdict of the best informed is now in favor of the schools.

"The benefits which they offer are easily suggested, and are of the most superior kind. They afford the students an acquaintance with general principles, difficult, if not impossible, to be otherwise obtained; they serve to remove difficulties which are inherent in scientific and technical phraseology, and they, as a necessary consequence, furnish the student with the means for clear conception and accurate and precise expression. They familiarize him with leading cases, and the application of them to discussion. They give him the valuable habit of attention, teach him familiar maxims and offer him the priceless opportunities which result from contact and generous emulation. They lead him readily to survey the law as a science, and imbue him with the principles of ethics, as its true foundation. Disputing, reasoning, reading and discoursing become his constant exercises; he improves remarkably as he becomes acquainted with them, and obtains progress otherwise beyond his reach.-Report of the Committee on Legal Education, to the American Bar Association, August 21, 1879, at Saratoga, N. Y.

ORIGIN.

Provision was made in the charter of the University for the establishment, at the proper time, of a Department of Law; and in the early part of 1888, the Regents, believing the proper time had come, established the department, elected a Dean, and provided a full corps of lecturers. The department opened on September 11, 1888, and its membership during the school year reached the number of sixty-seven. The lectures and instruction, during the first year of the department's existence, were given in rooms provided in the main building. which proved altogether inadequate to accomodate the numbers in attendance.

THE LAW BUILDING.

The rapid growth of the department made it necessary to provide larger accommodations, and in the spring of 1889, plans were prepared for a new building especially for the Law Department.

During the following summer the building was erected, finished and furnished, so that the department took possession of the same in October of that year.

The Law Building is a beautiful structure, and furnishes the school with first-class accomodations in every particular.

It was designed for the sole use of the Law Department, completed and furnished with reference to the needs of such an institution. It is constructed of red brick and brown sandstone, and located in a grove of native trees a short distance from the main University building.

Upon the first floor is a large lecture room, constructed on the plan of an amphitheatre, copiously lighted, thoroughly ventilated and furnished with comfortable chairs, arranged with special reference to taking notes with ease and convenience.

Upon the same floor there is the society room, devoted to the literary association of the department, and also a recitation room for text-book work.

Upon the second floor there is a large and thoroughly ventilated library room, a court room, a lecture room and the offices of the Dean.

The building is thoroughly heated by steam generated by a plant located some distance therefrom, supplied with gas, water and all the modern conveniences necessary to make the building complete and thoroughly equipped.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

Any person of good moral character will be allowed to matriculate in this department. If, however, the person applying for admission intends to be a candidate for a degree at the end of his course, he must be not less than eighteen years of age.

Graduates of universities or colleges, and students who have graduated from any normal school or state high school of Minnesota, or from similar institution of equal grade in other states, are admitted without examination upon presentation of their diplomas.

All other applicants, if candidates for a degree, will be examined in English composition, including English grammar and orthography, English and American history, also Geography, Arithmetic and Physiology. But if the applicant should be found deficient in any of the foregoing subjects he may enter conditionally and make up the deficiency elsewhere during the junior year.

SPECIAL STUDENTS.

Persons who are not candidates for a degree may enter the college at any time as special students without examination and may pursue whatever subjects they desire, provided they possess such knowledge and ability as will, in the opinion of the faculty, enable them to pursue the subject of law with profit to themselves. And all such students will be entitled to a certificate upon a satisfactory examination in the subject pursued by them, stating the time they have been members of the school and the subjects in which they have passed a creditable examination.

ADVANCED STANDING.

Should any person desire to enter the senior class for a degree, he must be at least nineteen years of age, must have had the required preliminary examination upon the subjects of the junior year, or their equivalent, but no person will be allowed to receive his degree who has not spent one full year in this department. Attorneys of law, however, who have been admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota, may enter the senior class without examination upon presentation of their certificates of admission and shall be entitled to their degree upon a satisfactory showing at the final examination of the year.

Applicants who have diplomas, entitling them to admission without examination, should present them to the Registrar of the University, who, upon the payment to him of the matriculation fee and the first term's tuition, will register them as students of the Law Department.

Those who are to take examinations or enter as special students, should present themselves to the Dean of the Department of Law, who will, upon proof of their qualification for admission, refer them to the Registrar, where they can pay the matriculation fee and the first term's tuition and receive their cards of admission.