Two hundred Law School students attended the first meeting yesterday afternoon of an elective course in accounting to be given this year by Professor R.G. Walker and Professor T.H. Landers of the Business School. This course, for which no credit will be given, has been added to the curriculum because Roscoe Pound Hon. 20, Dean of the Law School, considers it highly desirable that law students should familiarize themselves with some of the problems of the business world in which law plays an important part.

The course will deal with the structural and functional aspects of business. This will be accomplished by bringing the student in contact with certain cases in which the financial problems that underlie the business system are involved. The course will have a legal value, however, since it will abstract the accounting and financial from regular business and law cases. Only such aspects of these problems as are of most service to law students in practice will be considred.

The course will meet Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2 until 3.30 o'clock in Langdell Center, Professor Sanders lecturing on Tuesdays and Professor Walker on Thursdays. The course will end on April 15. This type of course, is an innovation at the University, and has never before been given in the United States. It deals with a subject of increasing importance in the field and will probably have considerable influence on law curriculum in general.