Work on the addition which is to be built on the north side of Austin Hall will be begun next spring or early in the summer. The building expenses will be paid from the surplus earnings of the Law School. Although the full details of arrangement have not yet been made, it has been decided that the size of the addition will be about the same as that of the present building. It will be ready for occupancy by September, 1901.

More than 6000 volumes have been added to the Law Library this year. Most of them were bought with library funds, although a few came from private sources. The number of volumes now in the library is about 51,000.

The increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years.

Of the third year class 42 per cent are Harvard graduates, of the second year class 35 per cent, and of the first year class 38 per cent. In the entering class there are 89 Harvard graduates, 112 graduates of other colleges, and 31 Harvard Seniors on leave of absence who are the only men in the school who hold no degrees. As the rule allowing persons qualified for the Senior class of Harvard College to enter the Law School as regular students without examination has been abolished, there will be in the future practically no one in the first year class holding no degree.

Of the graduates of other colleges in the school, twenty-two are from Yale, thirteen from Dartmouth, ten from Brown, eight from Bowdoin, four each from Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Williams, and University of Wisconsin, three each from University of Chicago and Iowa College, and two each from Boston College, Franklin and Marshall, Hobart, University of Michigan, and Oberlin. Twenty-one other colleges each have one graduate in the Law School.