Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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All other requirements of the Association are strictly complied with. The NVashburn College School of Law curriculum is practically the same as carried by the leading law schools of the country. The faculty is composed of three full-time professors and ten part-time lecturers, including two members of the Kansas Supreme Court, a district judge of Shawnee County, and leading practitioners. The enrollment for 1925-26 is ninety-seven and the present graduating class includes twenty students. Law School Faculty Parley Paul VVomer, B. D., Sc. D., . . . . . President Harry K. Allen, LL. B., .................. Dean Future Interests, Titles, Abstracts and Conveyancing, Legal Ethics and Trusts. CLINTON J. EVANS, A. M., Lectruer on Damages, International Law, Partnership and Persons. VVILLIAM XV. HARVEY. Uustice of Kansas Spureme Court.J Lecturer on Torts. EARL H. HATCHER, LL. B., tSupreme Court Reporterj Lecturuer on Bankruptcy and Legal Biblio- graphy. JOHN D. M. HAMILTON, LL. B., Lecturer on Federal Jurisdiction, Mortgages and Suretyship. THOMAS VV. HUGHES, LL. D., Professor of Law. Cantracts, Equity, Evidence, Municipal Corporations, Pri- vate Corporations and Quasi Con- tracts. D THOMAS A. LEE, M. A., LL. B., Lecturer on Real Property and Wills. HENRY F, MASON, B. L., LL. D., Cjustice of Kansas Supreme Court.J Lecturer on Constitutional Law. JAMES R, McBRIDE, LL. B., Professor of Law. Agency, Bills and Notes, Conflict of Laws, Insurance, Personal Property and Trade Regula- tions. Twenty-five RICHARD E, McINTOSH, LL, B.. tEditor of the Kansas Statutesj Lecturer on Kansas Statutes. OSCAR RAINES, LL. B., Lecturer on Trial Practice and Pre- siding. judge: of Practice Court. XVILLIAM C. RALSTON. A. B., LL. B., LL. D., 1Assistant Attorney Generalj Lecturer on Bailments and Carriers, Code Pleading and Common Law Pleadiug. ED ROONEY, LL. B., Lecturer on Criminal Law and Pro- cedure. GEORGE H. XVHITCOMB, A. B., LL B-, Uudge of Second Judicial Districtj Lecturer ou Sales. MARIE RUSSELL, A. B., M. S. J. D. Librarian. EMILY SANFORD PLATT, Secretary of the School of Law.

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DEAN HARRY K. ALLEN School of Law The XYashburn College School of l,axv is a member of the ,Xssociation of .Xmerican l.axv Schools. The constitution of the Association provides that after September lst, 1923, each member of the Association shall require of all candidates for its degree at the time of their admission to the school the completion of tvvo years of college xvorlt. The XX'ashburn School of l,axv anticipates this provision by putting this requirement in force on September lst, 1923. The Association rules provide that a full time school shall require of its candidates for the first degree in laxv resident study of laxv during a period of at least 90 weeks and at least l080 hours of class-room in- structions must be given in the mornings. XYashburn College School of Law requires resident study during a period of l08 xveclts and at least l368 hours of classroom instruction. .Xll lectures are given during the morning hours. 'l'he rules of the .Xssociation provide that each layv school shall own a lavv library of not less than 5000 volumes. The Wash- burn College School of Lan' noxv oxvns a library of 8500 volumes of new books besides several thousand old books and odd volumes. Twenty - four

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DEAN HENRY V. STEARNS The School of Music Tl1e School of Music is recognized as one of the leacling institutions of its kind in the state. lt offers a Bachelor of Music degree. a llachelor of Music with Public School Music as a Major degree. and in conjunction with the College of Liberal Arts. offers a major ancl a niinor in .Xpplierl music, in Theoretical music and in l'ulmlic School Music towartl the Bachelor of .Xrts rlegree. ,-X feature of the work of the school this year has been the inauguration of a series of operas, presentecl hy the faculty anrl stumlents of the clepart- inent. The first of these was Clilhert anml Sulliyan's l'inafore presentecl in the .Xuclitoriuin of the XXvUlllZ1ll.S Cluh on the evening of XYashlmurn Day ancl repeatecl the following evening. ,X picture of this is given on another page. The seconrl of these is Yictor llerhert's l2nchantress Twenty-six