University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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TLhc Xaw School I HE law school of the University of Illinois is at last an established fact. For years it has been a source of regret to all friends of the institution that the State University of the state of Lincoln, Douglas, Davis and Trumbull, not to mention Chief Justice Fuller and the many other illustrious names which have glorified and honored the bench and bar of Illinois, should be without a department of law. For years the time when such a depart- ment might become a part of the university has been looked forward to with hope and anticipation. It was, then, with no small degree of satisfac- tion that the announcement made in the spring of iSq7 that a law school would be opened at the university the following fall was greeted. The occupation of the new library building gave an opportunity for the fitting up of rooms for the new department in that portion of University Hall formerly occupied by the library, and here the law school was installed on CHARLES C PICKETT, PROFESSOR OF LAW. its opening at the beginning of the fall term of 1897. A good working library, consisting of a collection of standard text — and case — books, Illinois Reports ( both Still amorous, and fond, and billing. — Postel and Elma Smoot. 9

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fll £ %aby Came RONDEAU Y Lady came across the snow, With footstep short and footstep slow, And winds blew brave and never drear, And snowbirds piped their love notes clear. Wise birds ! How did the}- know ? I took her hand and whispered low; She trembled and blushed — she did not go. Then into my arms on Winter mere My Lady came ! And winds may rave and blasts may blow — Little care I for want and woe. I think of my little lady dear; I breathe a wish that she were near, And thank the gods that long ago My Lady came. Louis M. Tobin. God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. — Unzk :.ER. IS

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supreme and appellate courts), New York, Massachusetts and Ohio State Reports, U. S. Supreme Court Reports, the American and English Kncyclopedia of Law (first and second editions, so far as issued), the Kncyclopedia of Pleading and Practice and the recent volumes of the West National Reporter series, was purchased; and the services of two professors, Messrs. Gardner and Pickett, who should give their entire time and attention to the work of the school, secured. President Draper, himself an able lawyer, would, it was announced, act as temporary dean of the new department. The University authorities were surprised and gratified at the number of students presenting themselves at the opening of the first term. They had anticipated a small attendance at first, but the term opened with an enrollment of over thirty-five, which was increased to forty before the middle of the term. This number included a senior class of five, and two women students who entered the junior class. The courses, as originally planned, were two in number — a three-year course covering, in addition to GEORGE E. GARDNEU, PKOFiSSOK OF LAW. the strictly technical studies, some work in public law and administration, and constitu- tional history, and leading to the degree of LL.B.; and a two-year technical course preparing for admission to the bar, but leading to no degree. Owing to the change in the rules of practice made during the fall of 1897 by the Illinois Supreme Court, the course of study was changed, the one now offered being a strictly law course, three years in length, and leading to the degree of Bachelor of Law. In addition to the class-room work there have been courses of lectures given during Oh! there ' s nothing to be hoped for from her; she ' s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Klla Loftus.