University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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court room with the condition that it would h available to any organization of the Uni versify such a« the Senate or the Honor Court which might he hencfitted hy its use. The court room, however, may he used only for those purposes for which it was designed. The court room, which seats comfortably about ninety persons, is provided with a jury panel, witness stand, judge's bench, tables for the defendant and the plaintiff, debating table, and all accessories which make up a legitimate court room. The method of instruction at the School of Law is the ’Vase” method. Real cases are used, not fictional ones. The first case of the year was a collision ease in which one University student sued another. The University of Miami Law School is approved hy the American Bar Association. Stricter requirements in dress and habit than in the University proper are in effect at the School of Law. Men students are required to wear a coat and tie to class. No smoking is allowed except in the offices or in the law library. Class procedure is also more formal ized. In recitation, the student is required to stand. All these requirements are made to enable the prospective lawyer better to conform to those situations and problems which will confront him in actual practice. The law library, housing more than 15,000 volumes, is the second largest in Florida, the largest being in Tallahassee. Included in the library are 30,000 housing briefs with a history of each ease from the Supreme Court of Florida. The largest of these briefs is the Adams v. Saunders 1.000 printed pages. 'I’lie library contains the fourth best collection of session laws in Florida, dating hack to 1838. Other volumes available in the library are the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. the largest collection of law reviews in the South, the only set of the English Law (Quarterly Review in Florida, all the English statutes at large from the Magna Charta down through the year 1910. Grouped behind Mr . Charles Mitchell are other Law school faculty member Robert McKenna. Walter Dunntgan. Dean Ra co. William J. Heitor. Earl Curry, and Lauffer T. Haye .

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 M} mil TV -Across loP: - oble i r ltllil I huilds a castle in the sand . . . Mrs. Pearson looks down her nose as J.F.W. plays with his toes . . . Mc.Mastcr radiates and scratches his ear . . . Conley Smith plays soldier . . . Marks supplies oxygen . . . Dr. Ashe and Mom Koch tete-a-tete . . . Philhour lives drapes. Second row: Young leers . . . Doc Carney pares his nails . . . Miller gets snapped while snapping . . . Symbolism: Dr. Ashe goes along with the army . . . Doc Gifford displays hat . . . Identifiable: The Hesters all slicked tip. Rasco's head, and Roth at Riltmore . . . study in Hjort . . . Third rote: Steuncnherg is modest, while Tarpley and Belov stare at di Filippi. who expresses amazement ... It’s attitudes like this that Shacffer uses to keep hand hoys in hand . . . Mr. Koch plays Scrooge at Christmas time . . . our Favorite French convict. F. G. Walton Smith . . . Fourth row: Clothed. Dean Pearson inspects a specimen ... A registration cross section, showing Lchner, Maynard. Saslaw, Williams. Tebeau. and Kckel . . . Mrs. Volpe and Provin take a walk . . . Alter. Maynard, and Dunn look decidedly pale from Tampa ... as Miss Merritt keeps her eyes shut . . . Longeneeker explains it.