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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 Prescott, Jr., .... Editor-in-Chief. Philip S. Abbot, Treasurer, Richmond O. Aulick, Albert S. Bard, Albert E. Hadlock, Norman Hapgood, Carleton Hunneman, J. Wright Hunt, Frederick B. Jacobs, M. Day Kimball, James G. King, James M. Newell, Philip Wardner, Charles Warren, George E. Wright. It is with much sorrow that we are obliged to record the death, since our last issue, of Mr. Marland Cogswell Hobbs, a graduate of this school, and one of the founders of the Review. Mr. Hobbs was a man of rare gifts and exceptional promise, an honor to the school and to his pro- fession. His loss will be deeply felt by the many who knew and respected him. The Columbia and New York Law Schools. — The members of this school will have heard with much interest of Professor Keener's appointment as Dean of the Columbia Law School, to take the place of Professor Dwight, who resigned last spring. The Columbia Law School has reopened this year under an entirely new staff of instructors, consisting of four professors of law, two lecturers, and the faculty of the School of Political Science, the latter giving the instruction in Roman and Public Law and Comparative Jurisprudence. And while each individual instructor has full liberty in the choice of methods, appar- ently a system of instruction will be followed which, with some modi- fication, is modelled on that which Professor Langdell has so success- fully inaugurated and carried on here. The case system will for the most part be used, with the slight innovation, introduced by Professor Keener, of having the work of some well-known text- writer bound in with the selection of cases in such a way as to enable the class to take up text and cases together. This is to be done especially in the first or junior year, and has been introduced with the purpose of reliev- ing the uncertainty and embarrassment by which first-year men are met in using the case system pure and simple. Whether the change is one for the better of course remains to be seen. The course is one covering three years, and is not designed in any way to be a supplement to office work. Several subjects will be carried on con-