Kansas City School of Law - Pandex Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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THE FACULTY

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4 THE PANDEX 1916 if graham, Hon. james H. Harkless, lVlr. John W. Snyder, Mr. Elmer N. Powell. Mr. Edward D. Ellison, and lVlr. William P. Borland. The officers of the corporation were: President, Hon. Francis M. Black, Vice-President, Hon. Edward I... Scarrittg Vice-President, Hon. Oliver H. Dean: Dean, Mr. Wm. P. Borland, Secretary, Mr. Elmer N. Powell: Treas- urer, Mr. Edward D. Ellison. Two additions were made to the regular faculty: Hon. Oliver H. Dean QLecturer on Corporate Securitiesj, lVlr. James H. Harkless fLecturer on Code Pleadingl. and eight special lecturers were added: Hon. Henry C. Mc- Dougal, Hon. Blake L. Woodson, Mr. William L. Stocking, Mr. Frank Dexter, Mr. Robert lngraham, Mr. Henry Wollman, Mr. Edward D. Ellison and Mr. Elmer N. Powell. A supplementary announcement of four pages was issued giving details of the incorporation, additions to the faculty and courses offered. Two years' work was required for a degree, there being nine courses given in the junior year: Blackstone's Commentaries, Contracts, Agency, Domestic Relations, Personal Property, Partnership, Torts, Bailments and Bills, Notes and Com- mercial Paperg and eight courses were given the senior year: Real Property, Equity Jurisprudence, Crimes, Corporations, Pleading and Practice, Evidence, Constitutional and Statutory Law, and Wills and the Administration of Estates. The Hrst session of the school was held on September 6, IB95. There was an enrollment of fifty-seven the first year, and the first graduating class in I897 numbered twenty-seven. The men responsible for the organization were determined to make a success of the enterprise and spared no efforts to carry out their intention. The school soon after moved to the second floor of the New York Life Build- ing, and in 1899 the growth of the school demanded yet larger quarters, which necessitated the removal to the Ridge Building. ln l902 the school suffered a loss in the death of Judge Black, who had been president of the school from the beginning. His passing was mourned by the students, by his co-workers on the faculty, and by the bench and bar, not only of Kansas City, but of the state at large. He was succeeded by the Hon. O. H. Dean, who has so directed the policies of the school as to insure the continuance of its, past success and the promise of a brilliant future. In i902 the requirements for a degree were changed from two to three years' work and as a result there was no graduating class in l904. The class which would have been graduated then was continued in the following year and was graduated in l905. In I9I0 the school again moved its quarters, this time to its present location on the fifth floor of the Nonquitt Building. Three years' work divided among thirty-one courses are now required for a degree. The regular faculty numbers twenty-two and there are nine special lecturers. The enrollment in 1915 was two hundred eighty-three and the graduating class numbered fifty. The alumni numbers eight hundred seventy-five. The year was saddened by the death of Judge James S. Botsford, Lec- turer on Equity Jurisprudence, and one of the many able and noted jurists of the faculty who have labored to make a success of the Kansas City School o aw.

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THE PANDEX I9 I 6 VME'