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Admission.

The school is open upon equal terms to students from all parts of the United States, and the course of instruction is intended to prepare them for practice in any Stale; but no degree will be conferred until the recipient has attained the required age, as stated below.

Applicants for the Junior Class must be at least nineteen years of age, and for the Senior Class at least twenty.

Candidates for the Junior Class will furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character and standing, and of having received a good English education.

Candidates for the Senior Class, not previously members of the School, besides the foregoing, will be required to pass a satisfactory examination upon the studies of the Junior Year. To those who have previously been members of the Junior Class, the examination at the end of that year will suffice for admission, if creditably passed; and those who failed so to pass may, upon further study, apply again for examination in October This examination will be held on the Monday preceding the opening of the term, at 10 A. M., at the Law School, 1417 Lucas Place. No one will be admitted a regular member of the Senior Class except upon passing this examination; nor will any certificate of attainments, or previous study or attendance elsewhere, be accepted in lieu thereof.

But any person of good moral character and standing, not being less than nineteen years of age, may page 91 attend the lectures of either class upon entering and being enrolled in such class at any time before the Christinas recess, paying the regular tuition fee for the term, and engaging to comply with the current regulations of the Law School. Such enrollment will entitle him to the privileges of the Library and to attend all lectures and other exercises in both classes, but not to be examined, nor to receive a certificate of attendance, nor to compete for a prize essay or degree.

The Faculty are often asked to advise a course of legal reading to be taken by students before coming to the Law School. It is only in the rarest cases that such reading can be done "with advantage. It should only be done by one who can enjoy the constant daily supervision or advice of a thoroughly competent instructor. Without this aid, the time can be much more usefully spent in perfecting the student's general education, or in a course of historical or other reading. The place to begin the study of law is in the School itself, where the beginner has not merely the aid of teachers, but the immense help derived from classmates pursuing the same study, and a place where that study is the main business of daily life. This is not merely a theoretical opinion. It has been confirmed by the testimony of hundreds of students.

The term fee for attendance in either class will be $80, payable in every case in advance. There are no extra charges of any kind, and the members of either class are free to attend all lectures and exercises of both; but no student can at the same time be a regu- page 92 lar member of more than one class. No reduction will be made from the term fee, nor any part of it returned for absence from any cause. Class tickets are in no case transferable.

Good board and lodging can readily be obtained in the city at from to $6 per week. This expense may be lessened to students rooming together.