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When the Law Department was established, the announcement made as to the

has passed a satisfactory examination in Arithme tic, Geography, Orthography, English Composi requirements for admission was as follows : tion, and the outlines of the History of the United "That the candidate shall be eighteen years States and of England. The examination will be of age, and be furnished with a certificate conducted in writing, and the papers submitted by giving satisfactory evidence of good moral the applicants must evince a competent knowledge of English Grammar." character." This statement continued in the Calendar of the University until 1877, The students in the Law School are drawn when an additional statement was made de from every part of the United States, as well

claring that it was as from foreign coun "expected that all tries, Japan alone this students will be well year sending to it grounded in at least a twelve students. This good English educa year's University Cal endar shows the fol tion, and capable of lowing States repre making use of the English language with sented in the Law De partment : Arkansas, accuracy and propri California, Colorado, ety." If the reader is Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, here disposed to criti cise, let him remem Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michi ber that the other law gan, Minnesota, Mis schools throughout souri, Nebraska, Ne the country were then vada, New Hampshire, no more stringent in New York, Ohio, Ore their requirements governing the admis gon, Pennsylvania, sion of students than Tennessee, Vermont, the above statement Virginia, West Vir indicates, and that ginia, and Wisconsin. the most of them are The following Terri little better now in tories are represented: this respect than they Arizona, Dakota, Ida HENRY WADE ROGERS were then. But the ho, Montana, Utah, Michigan Law School and Washington. In has established a very different standard in addition, Japan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, recent years, as will be seen from the fol New Brunswick, Province of Quebec, and lowing statement taken from its annual the Province of Ontario contribute their announcement : — quota. Students come from San Francisco in the west and Boston in the east, from "Graduates of colleges, and students who have honorably completed an academical or high-school Minnesota in the north, and Arkansas in course, and who present a certificate or diploma the south. Out of the four hundred stu from the academy or high school, will be admitted dents one hundred and two come from without preliminary examination. No student who Michigan. The following table shows the number of does not present such certificate or diploma will be admitted as a candidate for a degree, until he students in attendance since the Law School 27