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Harvard Law Review. Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.50 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER. Editorial Board. Oliver Prescoit, Jr Editor-in-Chief. Philip S. Abbot, Treasurer y Richmond O. Aulick, Albert S. Bard, Albert E. Hadlock, Norman Hapgood, Henry Hudson, Carleton Hunneman, J. Wright Hunt, Frederick B. Jacobs, M. Day Kimball, James G. King, James M. Newell, Philip Wardner, Charles Warren, George E. Wright. Harvard Law School — The Dean's Annual Report. — In view of the great increase of students in the Law School, brief mention of which has already been made in the Review, 1 the Annual Report 2 by Professor Langdell as dean is of more than its customary interest. In addition to the usual tables of statistics, there is inserted in the report a classification of the students according to the States and countries from which they have come, and also a classification of college graduates ac- cording to their colleges. The latter table is especially noteworthy, showing as it does that since 1870 one hundred and forty-two col- leges other than Harvard have sent graduates to this school. In consequence of the increase of students, as the report points out, serious mechanical difficulties present themselves in the management of the school. Austin Hall, built only eight years ago, and expected to furnish ample accommodation to the school for fifty years, is already outgrown. The library, well known to be one of the largest and most complete law-libraries in the country, is not only taxed to its ut- most capacity, but is really suffering material injury from the con- sumption of valuable books due to the incessant use of them by the numerous students. It is evident that nothing short o' an additional building and an additional library will make it practicable for the school to furnish suitable accommodation for any larger number of, students than it now has. The resources of the school, however, are not such as to allow, at present, of such an enlargement. The only effective mode which presents itself, then, of guarding against the state of things which seems imminent is to limit the number of students to be received. With this object in view, two measures have been adopted by the faculty which will probably tend to that result. A regulation has been made that no student, whether a candidate for a degree or a special student, who fails to pass an examination in at least three subjects either at the regular examinations held at the end of his first year in the school or at the examinations held in the follow- ing September, will be allowed, unless by a vote of the faculty, to 1 5 Harv. Law Rev., 23S. 9 Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College, 1S90-1S91.