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sympathetic university administration. It had never been authorized by the legislature, and many of the university faculty had opposed its establishment. Despite these difficulties, the school in time improved in standing and earned the respect of the campus and of the law school world. The judge brought to the staff a number of men of outstanding ability, among them, Dudley O. McGovncy, Barry Gilbert, I. Maurice Wormser, George L. Clark, William Green Hale, Edward H. Decker, Edward S. Thurston, Chester G. Vernier, John Norton Pomeroy, Jr., and above ali Frederick Green, who possessed one of the most brilliant legal minds of his generation, and who was the mainstay of the faculty for thirty-three years. The national honorary fraternity of the Order of the Coif (at first called Theta Kappa Nu) was founded at Illinois in 1902. In 1908 the first summer school was held. In 1909 the J.D. curriculum was established. In 1911 the entrance requirements were advanced from a high school diploma to one year of college work and in 1915 to two years. In 1916 Henry Winthrope Ballantine succeeded Judge Harker as dean. A competent scholar but with no liking for administrative responsibilities, after four years he went to the University of Minnesota. Judge Harker, who had continued as professor, was called back as acting dean for a year. Then followed the one-year regime of Henry Craig Jones, after which, in 1922, Albert James Harno was appointed dean. Changes in administration and in faculty personnel were bound to work changes in educational policy. During the school's history the J.D. degree was instituted and then abolished, a graduate program was created, discontinued, and then created again, and a four-year curriculum was twice established and twice abolished. But these were signs oi a healthy experimentation and through the years there was progress. The College began the publication of its first journal, the Illinois Low Bulletin in 1917, In 1921 the publication was enlarged and named the Illinois Law Quarterly. The law schools of Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois, in 1924, formed a cooperative arrangement for the joint publication

of the Illinois Law Review, which theretofore had been published solely by Northwestern. The faculty and student boards of the new journal were composed of representatives of all three schools. This journalistic venture, though successful as an experiment in cooperative enterprise, continued for only eight years, when Northwestern exercised its reserved option to terminate the arrangement. For a number of years thereafter the students edited the casecomment section of the Illinois Bar Journal. Then in 1949, the College's present publication, the University of Illinois Law Forum, was founded. Each number of the Forum consists of a symposium devoted to the exposition and analysis of legal problems of special interest to the Illinois bar and it has rendered an invaluable service to the lawyers and judges of the State. Moot court competition has become an increasingly important activity of law students in recent years. The final arguments in the Frederick Green Competition are now heard by the judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois. The participation of faculty members in the activities of local, district, and state bar associations, of the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, and the Association of American Law Schools has increased through the years. The faculty have not only served on numerous committees, but have served in key offices and participated in many programs and projects sponsored by these organizations. Illinois has been a leader among law schools in providing continuing legal education for the members of the bar, by sponsoring each year a series of short courses. Since 1947, twenty-three such courses have been given on the campus, upon such subjects as Labor Law, Taxation, Trying Negligence Cases, Title Examination, The Expert Witness, and Amendments to the Illinois Civil Practice Act. Much of the progress that has been mentioned occurred during the thirty-four-year tenure of Dean Harno, whose appointment marked an epoch in the history of the school. During his administration the faculty has increased from 7 to 18, the library staff from 1 to 7, and the library has been enlarged from 30,000 to 110,000 volumes. The number of courses has been expanded from 36 to 70, entrance and graduation requirements have advanced, enrollment has risen, the honor system in examinations has become effective, the Junior Bar Association has been organized, a graduate curriculum has been established, and the quarters of the colleget after having been transferred from University Hall to Harker Hall in 1903, were moved to Altgeld Hall in 1927, and to the spacious building now being dedicated in 1956. George W, Coble