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FURTHER EXPANSION 335 and Harry A. Bigelow became members of the Faculty in 1903-4, Walter W. Cook in 1909, Edward W. Hinton in 1913, and William U. Moore in 1914. These were members of the staff of instructors who were still in service at the end of the period covered by this history. There were others who served for a time, and in addition to the permanent members of the Faculty many instructors and lecturers did work during these thirteen years. About forty different members of the faculties of other American law schools gave instruction in the Summer Quarters from 1904 to 1915. A most valuable library of forty thousand volumes was gathered. Including the original appropriation for the Library by Mr. Rocke- feller, more than a hundred thousand dollars was expended in the purchase of books. In 1915 Dean Hall, in a review of the history of the Law School published in the University of Chicago Magazine, wrote as follows : Not the least service of the Law School has been in stimulating legal educa- tion elsewhere in the Middle West. Just as the foundation of the Graduate School of the University encouraged neighboring institutions to devote larger attention to research, so the opening of the Law School has been followed by a substantial strengthening of the faculties and libraries of other western schools, and a general raising of standards of admission. In January, 1902, but one law school between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains required more than a high-school course for admission to candidacy for its ordinary degree. In January, 1915, nine law schools in this territory required one year of college work for admission, eleven required two years, and two required three years. It would be extravagant to claim for the example of Chicago the major part of the credit for this improvement, which has been the fruit of a long campaign for better standards of legal education, but there can be no doubt that the successful establishment of our School had an important share in the result. Dean Hall also wrote: About five per cent of our Doctors of Law graduated between 1904 and 1914 have become professors or assistant professors of law in schools whose standards of work make them eligible for admission to the Association of American Law Schools. This is about five times as large a percentage as that of Harvard Law School graduates of the same period who hold similar positions, and about eight times as great as that of similar Columbia Law School gradu- ates. Of course, various considerations of geography and of relative business opportunity have largely contributed to produce this disparity, but that it should exist at all in favor of a school only a dozen years old cannot but be considered as a solid testimonial to the character of the work for which its degree stands.