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erly done would require almost the exclusive Formerly, like many of our Eastern sisters, attention of one person; and the income of the only qualification for admission, aside the school does not at present permit of any from good moral character, was that appli increase in the staff of instructors. Of cants should possess " a good English edu course, no Law School can, nor does it at cation." This really means no educational tempt to, supply the things which must be requirements whatever. The result was that learned by actual practical experience in a many entered who were totally unprepared lawyer's office; but this is to be said of the to begin the study of the law. They were graduates of the Hastings Law School, that generally rejected, at least at the end of the

they find little diffi first year, but it proved culty in commencing to be a loss of time to to practise at once for them and an injury to themselves, without the standing of the any previous actual school. Accordingly, practical training. in 1886, the Directors resolved that unless an The lecture system applicant was a grad of instruction was at uate of some institu first adopted, but there were so many objec tion of learning of rec tions to it, that formal ognized standing, he lectures are not now should be compelled given except on spe to pass an examina cial subjects. Text tion in the following books are principally subjects; being sub stantially the same as used, but leading cases are constantly referred is required to enter to and required to be the Literary Course of the University : — studied. Comments are made, to such an extent as may be I. English. A short thought necessary, but composition, correct in they are chielly infor spelling, punctuation, mal. There are daily paragraphing, and gram E. W. MCKINSTRY mar, upon a subject taken recitations and discus from the following works : sions. The school is distinctly Californian, and therefore special Scott's Lady of the Lake; Scott's Ivanhoe; Irattention is paid to the Codes of the State. ving's Alhambra; Thackeray's Newcomes; ShakHow far the Code provisions have adopted, speare's Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar. modified, or abrogated particular rules of the Applicants are also required to analyze sentences Common Law, is constantly attempted to be from these works, and to pass an examination on the first seventy-one lessons in Kellogg's Text shown. Such peculiar topics as commu book on Rhetoric. nity property are also noticed at length. 2. Arithmetic. Including the metric system, The exercises are held in comfortable rooms and the technical parts of Commercial Arithmetic; in the Old Hall of Pioneers on Montgomery namely, banking, profit and loss, commission, taxes, Street, near Jackson. The school has no duties, stocks, insurance, exchange, and average library of its own, but students have access payments. 3. Algebra. To Quadratic Equations, includ to the excellent San Francisco Law Library, ing the various methods of factoring, the theory at the New City Hall.