Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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336 BOARD 0 £ TRUSTEES [June 7, I have set aside $1,000 from the Incidental Fund for expenses connected with organizing and conducting this work. This report was received for record. W I T H D R A W A L S FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE (18) A report from Dean T. A. Clark showing the number of students who withdrew from the University with credit for work in the national defense. This report was received for record. FOUR-YEAR CURRICULUM IN LAW (19) A letter from 1 the Clerk of the Senate concerning the establishment of a four-year curriculum in L a w : May 4, 1917 D. Edmund J. James, President DEAR M R . PRESIDENT: At a special meeting held on April 30, 1917, the University Senate voted to make the following recommendations to the Board of Trustees with reference to the establishment of a four-year curriculum in l a w : That in addition to the present three-year curriculum in law, with the admission requirement -of sixty hours of college credit, a four-year curriculum in law be established; the admission requirement of the fouryear curriculum to be matriculation and thirty hours' credit in a college of this University, or the equivalent. The degree of Bachelor of Laws will be granted to all such students as complete the eighty-four credits in law required in the three-year curriculum, and in addition thirty hours in other colleges of the University to be distributed over the four years. Approximately two-thirds of law work and one-third in subjects other than law shall be taken during the first two years of the four-year curriculum. Students' in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and of Commerce and Business Administration may take first-year law courses counting towards the degree of A.B. or B.S., and also towards the degree LL.B. or J.D., in their junior as well as in their senior year, under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Law as to the courses to be taken. They will not be allowed to take less than two courses, amounting to at least five hours per semester. Sincerely yours, C. M. MCCONN Clerk of the Senate On motion of Mr. Hoit, this recommendation of the Senate was adopted. SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION (20) A report that the committee appointed by the Senate on the Semi-centennial Celebration had considered with great care, on the out^. break of the war, whether the University should give up the idea of eele-
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