It is also very desirable that the new shop building should provide, under the same roof, adequate space for the shops of the growing Manual Arts Department. To provide for proper new equipment and for a more adequate building there should be available during the next two years an additional amount of not less than $30,000.

I wish here to call attention to the question of more adequate salaries for the teaching staff. During the past ten years this college has lost many valuable men, largely because the general scale of salaries is insufficient. It is practically no longer possible to secure high grade experienced men from other institutions at the salaries we are able to pay; on the contrary we are losing men whom we ought to keep. The salary standard for the more important positions should be raised as soon as possible to at least $4000, with corresponding increases for other positions, as I do not believe that an engineering school can be maintained on a high professional basis on a lower scale than this.

Respectfully submitted,

F. E. TURNEAURE,

Dean, College of Mechanics and Engineering.

REPORT OF THE DEAN OF THE LAW SCHOOL

President Charles R. Van Hise,

The University of Wisconsin.

Dear Sir: I beg to submit the following report concerning the Law School for the biennial period ending June 30, 1914.

FACULTY

The following changes have occurred in the faculty:

Eldon R. James, appointed professor of law in June 1912, resigned June 1913 to accept a professorship in the University of Minnesota Law School.

Ernest G. Lorenzen appointed professor of law in April 1911 resigned in June 1914 to accept a professorship in the University of Minnesota Law School.

William U. Moore, appointed assistant professor in June 1908, professor of law in June 1911, resigned in June, 1914 to accept a professorship in the University of Chicago.

Oliver S. Rundell, instructor in law September 1910, retired in September 1912 to engage in practice.

The other members of the faculty during this period were H. S. Richards, Dean, and Professor of Law; Howard L. Smith, Burr W. Jones, E. A. Gilmore, professors of law; J. B. Sanborn, F. T. Boesel, lecturers in law; A. B. Hall, Associate Professor of Political Science, continued to offer courses in Administrative Law in the Law School.

In the Summer Session of 1912 Professors Gilmore, Lorenzen and Richards of the regular faculty offered courses. Courses were also given by Professor W. W. Cook, University of Chicago, Professor Albert Kales, Northwestern University Law School, and O. S. Rundell, Instructor in law.

During the Summer Session of 1913 courses were offered by Professors Gilmore, Lorenzen, and Smith of the regular faculty, and Professor Wm. E. Higgins, University of Kansas Law School, Professor James P. McBaine, University of Missouri Law School, and Oliver S. Rundell, Esq.

Henry W. Ballantine, A. B., LL. B., formerly Dean of the University of Montana Law School, was elected Professor of Law in 1913 to fill the position made vacant by the resignation of Professor James.

Oliver S. Rundell, LL. B. 1910, formerly instructor in law 1910-12, was elected assistant professor of law in August 1914, and Harold M. Wilkie, Esq., LL. B. 1912, instructor in law to take the places of Professors Lorenzen and Moore, resigned.

During the University year 1912-13 Dean H. S. Richards was absent on leave, the administrative work being in charge of Professor Gilmore.

During the University year 1913-14 Professor Gilmore was absent on leave.

The total registration for the biennium was 473, including summers of 1912 and 1913, which shows an increase over the preceding biennium of sixty-four. The total registration of special or unclassified students during this period was 53 as against 68 for the biennium of 1910-12, and 78 for the biennium of 1908-10. The registration for the current year shows a still further falling off in this class of students. Two special students were graduated during the biennium on account of their unusual attainments.

The increase in registration though not large has been substantial, and gratifying, when the number of law schools in the vicinity of Madison is considered. The state universities and

private schools in adjoining states have made striking improvements in the last five years, practically all now requiring two years of college work as prerequisite to legal study. The teaching force of these schools has also been increased and strengthened. This improvement coupled with the growing tendency of students to attend the schools in the states in which they intend to practice has narrowed the field from which students are drawn. Taking the country as a whole, the number of professional students is declining, the larger schools showing a falling off or a stationary registration. The Universities of Minnesota and Michigan owing to advanced entrance requirements show a sharp decline in attendance. Indeed, this law school although a pioneer in higher entrance requirements has suffered less than any school in this respect. The number of students under instruction at this school is larger than the figures would indicate, since there are a large number of students registered in Letters and Science who carry less than ten hours of law school work, in consequence of which they are not counted as law students at all. Although it would be possible to accommodate at least one hundred more students without additional expense to the University, the present number of students is large enough for effective teaching, since it makes small sections possible. When a class exceeds thirty-five, individual participation in discussion decreases, and individual responsibility on the student's part noticeably decreases.

The interest on the part of the student and the intensiveness of the work has unquestionably increased during the biennium. Although the number of courses offered and the number of required class hours has increased the outside work of the students along legal lines has developed also.

In addition to the work of the practice court, a number of law clubs are maintained for the discussion of legal questions. A large organization of students devotes itself to the broader aspects of law, and its relation to social and economic problems. During the past year the history of various legal doctrines was traced in a series of papers, and the program of this year contemplates a study of current legal problems growing out of social and economic legislation.

The activities of the members of the faculty aside from their duties as teachers have been largely in connection with such legal bodies as Association of American Law Schools, Section on

Legal Education of the American Bar Association, Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the State Bar Association. Various addresses have been given and articles written which are more particularly set forth in the departmental reports for 1912 and 1913.

Along the lines of teaching the effort is being made to individualize the instruction more by requiring special reports and briefs from the students and conferences concerning such reports. The members of the faculty have been active in connection with the Moot Court and Clubs, suggesting questions and advising with participants. Work of this character has been made possible by the provision made for student assistants, who have proved to be of great service. Courses have been authorized and will be given the coming year in briefmaking and office practice. The former course is designed primarily for first year students to familiarize them quickly with the material with which they must work, proper methods of using digests and other source books, and practice in compiling briefs. The course in office practice is intended for third year students and is designed to give the student a medium for applying in a concrete way his knowledge of substantive law by drawing such common documents as contracts, deeds, articles of business association, corporations and partnerships. This sort of work has been done before in connection with individual courses and included drawing deeds, examination of abstracts, etc. These courses in connection with the practice in pleading carried on in the courses in Code Pleading and Code Practice and the Practice Court give as complete a training in adjective law as can be done effectively in a law school. The faculty is convinced that admission to the bar should be preceded by a period of office study. At graduation the law student, however, efficiently trained he may be, is ignorant of many things pertaining to the art of his profession that renders him an unsafe adviser. No law requires such an apprenticeship in this state, though it is recognized as essential, since a majority of each year's class go into an office of an older lawyer before entering on practice independently. As the result of a rule adopted by the Regents in April 1914 at the request of the law faculty, all students entering after July 1, 1916 are required to serve an apprenticeship of six months in a law office before receiving a degree. The success of this provision will depend on the extent to which members of the bar of the state