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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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218 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois year law course organized in 1917 will be admitted upon the completion of 30 hours' college credit The standard of scholarship in the College has been distinctly raised. The students work more earnestly and graduate better equipped than formerly. The change is due in part to raising the entrance requirements, but chiefly to changes in administration and in the conduct of instruction. The success of graduates of this College in the examinations given by the State Board of Bar Examiners for admission to the bar has been remarkable. It is probable that no law school in the country has a better record. Nor are the graduates of the College less successful in practise* Within the last sixteen years, twenty-eight have been elected to the office of State's Attorney; seven have served as Assistants to the Attorney General of the State; three have been elected to the office of circuit judge, and one to the office of Supreme Judge of the State of North Dakota, while another has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of China. Improvements that have been made in the Law Building include a five-story fire-proof book stack, with a capacity of 22,000 volumes; remodeling and refurnishing class rooms; adding a reading room, a law club room, and a consultation room; lockers and a coat room for students; a reading room and two new offices for the faculty; a remodeling of the basement and entrances, and new electric lighting. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS11 In 1916 Prof. H. W. Ballantine of the University of Wisconsin was appointed Dean of the College of Law of the University of Illinois. The new Dean has to his credit a long list of articles in legal periodicals, and two books, " Problems in the Law of Contracts," and a revised and modernized edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. He is recognized also as an expert in the field of Martial Law. Perhaps the most notable recent achievement of the College of Law was the establishment in 1917 of the Illinois Law "Extracts from a special article by Prof. J. N. Pomerov of the College of Law
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