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SECOND YEAR. Civil Procedure Code Civil Code (Property) " "(Proof) "
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(Acquisition of Rights)
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Commercial Code Practical Applications
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THIRD YEAR. Civil Code (Acquisition of Rights) . . . " "(Suretyship and Mortgage) . . Commercial Code Administrative and Constitutional Law . . Practical Applications.
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The students have the privilege of attend ing both departments at once; and I imagine that a large number follow this course. The Political Science Department gives a modi cum of instruction in private law (the lec tures being given to both classes at the same time), with additional courses in History, Economics, Logic, and International Law. The most noted of the lecturers are Messrs. S. Isobe, Assistant Attorney-General of the Empire, S. Tomitani, S. Kawamura, and K. Mayeda, the last three being recent gradu ates of French and German institutions, and officials of the Department of Justice. Out of the iioo students, not more than one fourth attend regularly. The figures of past years afford some interesting conclu sions on the subject of attendance, which will be presently alluded to. These figures include both departments, and I am unfortu nately unable to say what proportion the law students proper represent; but each depart ment, as has been seen, gives substantially what we should call a law course. i ..;•-; i 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
Entered.
Graduated.
405 343
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21
492 1262 676
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873 865 5842
Passed Bar Examination.
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438
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The monthly fee is one yen, with an en trance fee of one yen. Certain classes of students are admitted without examination, — graduates of Middle Schools, of Normal Schools, or of higher Government Schools, and members of certain other Special Schools. All others must pass an examin ation in Arithmetic, Chinese, and Japanese Composition. 3. Law Department of the Semman School. This institution was founded some ten years ago by Count Okuma, the sagacious and far-seeing statesman who so nearly ac complished Treaty Revision in 1889, and is now looking forward to the Premiership if the Opposition wins in the elections of February. It is often spoken of as a nur sery for supplying the Count with young politicians devoted to himself. No doubt this type of school was common enough in Western Japan twenty years ago, especially in the Satsuma dominions; and in all proba bility the Count, when he left the Govern ment in 188 1 and founded this institution, looked forward to the time when he could rely on the support of a body of young men not indebted to the Government for an edu cation, and not inculcated with the ideas of his opponents, — a prospect which he is now realizing. But as the school is now organ ized, there is nothing, except the patronage of Count Okuma to raise a doubt as to the educational aims of its managers. It is, next to the Imperial University, one of the best-equipped institutions of collegiate rank, and it is nominally in the hands of its alumni in all important matters of management. Its staff includes some of the ablest young men in literature and political science. The name Semman corresponds to our " Tech nical; " but as yet there are only three de partments, — Literature, Law, and Political Science. The Law Department is divided into two courses, — one for those students who intend entering administrative branches of the civil service, and the other giving a general legal education. The lectures on
