Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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MARSHALL J. JOX LOUIS ALBERT WEHING Instructor in Law Instructor in Law Modern American law is a composite of the common law and legislative and consti- tutional enactments. This law is the fruit of hundreds of years of development, in England and later in America, toward the establish- ment of a system of law which would ade- quately protect the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities of individuals, and suppress personal and public wrongs. The School of Law seeks to acquaint its students with the principles and rules that have thus been established, attempting, meanwhile, not to overlook the many outstanding local peculiari- ties of the law as it exists in the various states of the United States in the federal jurisdiction. A practical balance between theory and practice is attained by training the student in the operative functions such as drawing legal papers, pleading, and trial practice, as well as by discipline in the methods of legal reasoning and analysis. A practice court is maintained, in which the student must take all the steps required in the preparation and trial of a case. Professional interest of the students is stimulated through lectures by practicing attorneys and judges. The Valparaiso School of Law is fully approved by the American Bar Association; its degree of Bachelor of Laws is approved by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York; and it is a mem- ber of the Association of American Law Schools, an organization of approximately 88 law schools in the United States and Canada. Dean John W. Morland has been head of the School of Law since 1928. He came to Valparaiso in l925. In his office one finds many things: lots of fountain pens, all sizes, colors, and shapes; colored inks, espe cially green and purple; pictures of his family, per- haps a couple of clocks and some tools: all these besides stacks of books and papers. LAW Ll BRARY

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JOHN W. MORLAND Dean It's a small school, bute-J It's the quality and not the quantity that counts, as the saying goes, and the School of Law of Valparaiso University is not to be underestimated because of its small enroll- ment. 1f the alumni of a school are the best evidence of the character of work it is doing, the graduates of the V. U. law school have furnished ample evidence of the worth of the school and the excellent training it gives its students. For years the percentage of graduates passing the bar examinations has compared favorably to that of any large law school in the country, and it is generally greater than that of many state law schools. SCHOOL OF LAW VIRGIL E. BERRY Professor of Law

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Page Twenty-four HOWARD W. MOODY Dean THROUGH on action by the Board of Directors this year, Valparaiso has arranged with Pur- due University, two cooperative plans for students of engineering. At the end of this school year, instruction in advanced engineering courses will be discontinued. Under the first plan the student will spend three years at Valparaiso and two at Purdue. During the three years at Valpo he will take all the freshman and sophomore courses offered at Purdue, plus the cultural and religious require- ments for all Liberal Arts graduates. Upon com- pletion of his first year in engineering at Purdue, the student will receive his BA. from Valparaiso, and after the second, the 3.8. in civil, electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering from Purdue. Under the second plan the student will spend two years at Valpo and two at Purdue, receiving his 3.5. on completion of his fourth year. At Valpo he will take all the required engineering COLLEGE OF HERMAN BLlCKENSDERFER Instructor in Civil Engineering