University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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under its present leadership, take on a new life and a new indust1y 1' 1 'll wncl NV1 be but one more cause for us who are now leavino her to say with pride in our later f years, I am a graduate of the Col lege of Law of the University of Nebraska. ' Cl.-' i QWAS T47 2 Qi Q5 '3454- 6 f '41 S 4, . - -5. 4, s 2 X J .r r NX f- 'Wil 2 'wx 'X - . tk' . mi' 'A'-lLl:' Ii.: ' 1' BM' i E551 r . ' E ' X-E ' i bLf'F..Ui!I.b ' 'eil H- 1 F. -1!I'Ff' , .1 59 ig? ,bufgilgfw V 5 gl 1-e-If Q M, 53.1 ' if-Ea , !,'1f5if'5iLfleiR. 7 - , ' E ,.n,,y: gg. 4 Q: ?j , TE. 2 ' ,r,s,Lv9 U1EI..u'fF5r 32

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to the strictly case study method. This method, in a modilied form, had been used for several years before by Professor Robbins, but it remained for .Professor Cook to formally inaugurate the pure system. It is used by him in all his classes. Professor XVilson still uses the combined lecture and text-book plan. Dean Pound is an advocate of the case system. Wfith the appearance of Dr. Pound as dean came two other noticeable changes for the better. For several years the quarters on the first floor had been inadequate for the needs of the rapidly growing school. This year the old chapel was remodeled, and the law school comfortably installed therein. The library, which in 1893 occupied a corner of the general library building, now numbers over four thousand reports and text-books, and promises to double itself in the next few years. Another radical change has been the installation of the present complicated system of practice courts for the old farce of Umoot courts. Under the present arrangement, a complete set of courts, presided over by student judges, ranging from the justice shopy' to the supreme court, has been inaugurated, and each student is required to try at least one case in each court. From gratuitous lectures by charitably minded lawyers, the system has changed to the regular academic form of paid instructors, who devote their entire time and attention to the law school. Qui' present faculty, consisting of Dean Pound, Professors Wfilson, Rob- bins, Cook, and Mr. Ledwith, is equal in ability to any set of in- structors in the middle iW'est and bids fair to place the College of Law of the University of Nebraska on a par with the great schools of the East. Their effect upon the students is marked. The old- time motto of work when you mustl' has given away to the newer one of work or Hunk. Last, but not least, is the effect of the Law School upon the state at large. In 1895, owing to its inliuence, the old system of admission by motion in the district court was changed to examina- tion by the Supreme Court, and in 1903 the term of study was increased to three years. These two acts have probably reduced over three-fourths the number of persons annually admitted to practice, with the consequent raising of the general standard of the legal profession in the state. The outlook at the present writing was never better. VV ith the few changes and adjustments yet to be made, the school will, 31

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jifarm Q The year of 1903 -OL marked the beginning of a 1 rew period in the history of the College of Law