Michiganensian. [1910]

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~ Department of Law
Itl-A Y BI'xNS I-I hT(nIINS, Ph. I).. LL,. I)., Dean
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gL _, oBorn, Lisbon, N. lI., April 8, 1847.
Prepared New HIampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton.
Vermont Conference Seminary at Newberrv.
Entered \eVesleyan Iniversity at 1 9.
Studied at the University of \Vermont and Dartmouth, in was_ Entered University of Michigan in the fall of '67.
l _ iGraduated with degree of Bachelor of Philosophl in 1871.
1 was _ ~ h pInstructor in listory and Rhetoric in 1872 and Asst. Prof. in 1873.
J _ Left to practice law and in 1 84 returned to the University as "Ja y"
M Professor of Law.
M wW t W ent to Cornell in 1887 to organize lawv department.
9 In 1895 was re,:alled to Michigan as Dean of the department..Acting President in 1897-1898 during Dr. Angell's absence.
Member of New York Bar Asso'.iation, American Association, Michigan Political Science Association.
Received honorary degree of Doctor of Law from W\isconsin in 1897
[M A.\cting President of the Unive.sity.
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This department was provided for in the Organic Act in March, 1859. The Law School was
opened on October 8, and included three professorships. which were later styleCd Marshall, Kent and Jay
chairs. James V. Campbell, Charles Walker and Thomas M.. Cooley were elected to fill these chairs,
with Professor Campbell acting as dean. The first class was graduated in 1860. The original home
of the school was the old chapel, and not till October, 1863, did it have a home of its own. The building was reconstructcd and greatly enlarged in 1893. Again in 1898 it was practically demolished and
rebuilt as it now stands. A fourth professorship was established in 1886, and named for the Honorable Richard Fletcher, of Boston. This chair was first filled by Ashley Palmer. The fifth chair
was the Tappan professorship established in 1879, first filled by Alpheus Felch. In 1871 Professor
Cooley became clean of the department. The original course consisted of two terms, each six months
long, lasting from October through March. The instruction was entirely by lectures, and at the completion of the cour.se the degree of LI,.D. was given. In 1877 an entrance examination in English
was required. In 1884 the terms were lengthened to nine months each, and in 1895 a third year
was required for the completion of the course. The Practice Court as it now stands was established
in the year 1899-1893.
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