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temple Unffiemtp Hato ;i cf)ool By Francis Chapman THE Law School, which is one of the oldest departments of the I'niversity, was founded in the spring of 1895 and was for years known as the Philadelphia Law School of Temple College. The first class graduated was that of 1901. For some years after the school was founded it was the rule to confer degrees only on those students who had successfully completed the course in the school and had in addition passed the final examination for admission to the Bar, given by the state or county where the student sought admission. The result of this policy was that the students, seeing the emphasis laid on the examinations conducted by authorities outside the school, began to leave the school as they got into the final year and place themselves under tutors who made a business of preparing students for finals. In many instances after doing this they did not return to obtain a degree. As a consequence, there are at the Bar today in Philadelphia many lawyers who owe their legal training to the Temple Law School, wholly or in part, who are. not on its alumni list. In 1905 the faculty determined to abandon this policy and to grant degrees solely on the college examinations without reference to any outside judgment. About the same time the County Board of Philadelphia County decided to accept a completed course in the Law School as the equivalent of a clerkship in a lawyer’s office or a course in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. The beneficial result of this was at once seen. From this time the students felt themselves equal to the students of other schools in treatment as they had long felt themselves in ability and training. In 1911 the school was removed from the buildings of the University at Broad and Berks Streets to the Wilson Building at Sixteenth and Sansom Streets, thus providing a central location readily accessible from the railroad stations and convenient to the subway. Students from out of the city who had found it impossible to attend at Broad and Berks Streets because of the distance from the various railroad stations and the consequent difficulty of getting trains late at night after lectures, began to come in and the attendance has grown steadily with an ever-increasing number of students from New Jersey and out-of-town points in Pennsylvania. At first, after the removal, the school had the third floor of the Wilson Building, but it soon outgrew this and took over the two upper floors of the building. In the summer of 1922 the school was moved to its present location at 1521 Locust Street where it occupies the entire building. 28
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although the facilities are far from being adequate enough for the present requirements. Beginning with no library for the use of the law school, it was difficult to do good work. To remedy this the Faculty presented the school with a complete set of Pennsylvania State reports, and other books were added from time to time until there is now a good library of nearly 5000 volumes. It was not until 15)13 that the library had grown sufficiently to cause mention in the school catalogs. From its beginning, the school has insisted on thorough work, and it was one of the first, if not actually the first, law schools in the United States to arrange a four-year course of study, and put it in effect at a time when not only in the South, hut in New York, law schools were giving two-year courses and claiming to furnish a complete legal training in that time. The standard of hours of study set by the State Board has never been accepted by the law school as a maximum. Indeed, it has been a minimum so long that it lias even been forgotten by many that there is a provision, requiring of a law school graduate 9G0 hours of classroom work. For many years the Temple School lias exacted from its graduates over 1300 hours of class-room work as a condition of their graduation. During the thirty years of its history, the law school has had in its faculty many well-known members of the Philadelphia Bar. A brief reference to them will be of interest to the Temple student of today. Among the earliest of the teachers in the school was the late R. O. Moon who won both reputation and fortune at the Bar of Philadelphia. Distinguished as an orator, a teacher of elocution at one time. Mr. Moon had a sound knowledge of the Criminal Law, and as a member of Congress in his last years proved himself a learned and valuable member distinguished for his work on the Federal Criminal Code. Henry S. Bornemann as Dean gathered around him as members of the faculty from time to time such men as Henry Rudd, Esq., a very learned lawyer, joint author with Chief Justice Sharswood, of Shars-wood and Rudd's “Cases on Real PropertyWilliam Righter Fisher, a painstaking lawyer of the old school, filled with the best traditions of the profession and desirous of passing them on to the younger men. For many years Mr. Fisher was Deputy Examiner of the State Board of i ar Examiners; T. Elliott Patterson, now Jury Commissioner to the Board of Judges of Philadelphia County; George C. Bowker, a very capable real estate lawyer; Alfred R. Haig, partner of Judge Henry C. Thompson, of the Orphan’s Court, and Samuel P. Rotan, for many years a most efficient and genial District Attorney of Philadelphia County. When, in 1902, the faculty resigned because of a difference of opinion as to the policy of the school, a new faculty was organized with 29
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