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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, Henry Hudson, Carleton Hunneman, J. Wright Hunt, Frederick E. Jacobs, M. Day Kimball, James G. King, James M. Newell, Philip Wardner, Charles Warren, George E. Wright. Harvard Law School — Increased Number of Students. — The astonishing increase in the membership of the Law School this year must be very gratifying, not only to the instructors as evidence of appreciation of their work, but to all who are interested in the school and its methods. The Dean especially must take great satisfaction in the prosperity of the school, and in the assured success and firm estab- lishment of the method of instruction to which he has given so much thought and so many years of devoted effort. To be sure, it is not possible to say that the growing confidence in the Langdell method has been the sole cause of the increase of students in the present year : with our great increase we may readily admit that a portion of the growth is due entirely to accidental causes. Yet such increased con- fidence, warranted as it is by the success of recent graduates of the school, and spread through the profession, as we are glad to acknowl- edge, by the influence of the Harvard Law School Association, is believed to be the chief cause of the present numbers. In view of the increase of this year, a few statistics and comparisons may not be uninteresting : — While last year there were 160 new entries to the school during the entire year, this year, up to November 25, there have already been 205. Of this number, 57 are Harvard graduates, 73 are graduates of other colleges, and 75 are non-graduates. Not before since 1873, with possibly one exception, have the graduates of other colleges ex- ceeded those of Harvard. This increase of graduates of other colleges is worthy of study. To the First Year class at this time last year Yale and Brown had together contributed 8 of their graduates, and Bovvdoin none ; to the First Year class of this year, those three colleges have given 34 men, Yale 18, and Brown and Bowdoin 8 each. Of the 363 men now in the school, as against 279 at the same time last year, it is somewhat curious that the number of Special Students remains the same as last year, 6t. The entire increase, therefore, appears in the regular classes. With regard to these Special Students, too, from the fact that 6 already hold the degree of LL. B. and 3 others are college graduates, it would seem pretty evident that many