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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Colleges and Schools 217 For the year 1903-04 the enrolment in the business courses was 41. The number rose steadily from semester to semester with remarkable uniformity, until in 1919-20 a total of 1,588 students were enrolled in the new college. For the six years previous to 1919-20 the annual increase ranged from 25 to 38 per cent. Eighteen years' experience with the courses in Commerce and Business Administration seems to warrant fully the belief that university commercial education, though regarded in many quarters a dozen or sixteen years ago as a doubtful innovation if not an educational fad, is a social and economic service of the highest importance and promise. 6. T H E COLLEGE OF LAW 1 0 In 1904-05, the College of Law had hardly more than a rudimentary law library—a few text books and copies of the reports of courts of last resort in about one-fourth of the states. The number of books was considerably below the minimum of 5,000 which is now required for membership in the Association of American Law Schools. I t has today an excellent working library of over 22,000 books. I t contains not only full sets of the courts of last resort of all the states of the Union, but also sets of the English, Irish and Canadian reports, and over 2,000 text-books upon almost every subject known to law. The faculty in 1904-05 consisted of six members including the Dean. There are now seven. They are, on the average, men of much stronger native ability, better legal training and of much greater experience in teaching. Courses have been added in Bankruptcy, Conflict of Laws, Conveyancing, Future Interests in Property, Insurance, Quasi-Contracts and Public Service Companies, and additional work is given in Constitutional Law. The requirements for admission have been raised from a certificate from an accredited high school to the completion of two years' college work. Students who enroll in the four*°Summary of a special report by Judge O. A. Harker, Dean of the College of Law from 1903 to 1916
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