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The Law School.

The following items regarding arrangements in the Law School for next year will be of interest to Harvard men:

The most pressing question before the school is one of room. The resources of the school have been strained by its rapid growth. Judging from past development, the net increase of students next year would be, at least calculation, over fifty. Almost all changes announced for next year are to meet the addition. Seats for forty men will be placed in the vacant space to the east of the library stack and an extra delivery desk will be put in. Undoubtedly with a view to delaying further increase the Faculty have made admission more difficult in two ways; first, by requiring all special students to take the same entrance examination which is set for regular candidates for admission, thus practically abolishing specials; secondly, by increasing the admission requirements to Blackstone, Latin and French, instead of Blackstone, Latin or French. The most important change, however, because the one most likely to affect the life of the school, is the division of the first-year class into sections in all its work except Criminal Law. This step of course involves the strengthening of the permanent teaching force.

Two new members have been added to the Faculty. Mr. Beale, who graduated from the college in 1882 and from the Law School in 1887, and who has been an instructor during the past year, is made an assistant professor. Professor Wambaugh, who comes here from the Law School of the State University of Iowa, graduated from Harvard College in 1876, took the degree of A. M. in 1877, and that of LL. B. - the latter with very high distinction - in 1880. For several years, also, he practised law in Cincinnati, teaching at the same time in the Cincinnati Law School.

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