REPORT SHOWS LAW SCHOOL HARD HIT BY WAR LOSSES

The annual report of the Law School for the year of 1916-17 shows that part of the University to have been the hardest hit by the war, as far as enrolment is concerned. Slightly more than one-third of the number of men who attended the Law School last spring returned in the fall to continue their studies.

Extracts from Dean Pound's Report.

"As the Law School admits college graduates only, its students were all of military age under the Act of Congress, and formed a picked body of men peculiarly adapted, and hence specially called, to enter the officers' training camps opened by the Federal Government early in May. Accordingly, nearly every able-bodied student in the School not already in the National Guard or the Naval Reserve applied for admission to some one of those camps, and a large number were admitted. Before the end of the school year two graduate students out of 10, 187 first-year students out of 334, 131 second-year students out of 234, 56 third-year students out of 213, and 36 unclassified students out of 66, were either in the service or in officers' training camps.

"The school year 1917-18 opens with 292 students, a little more than one-third of normal registration. Perhaps we may be proud of this registration, reflecting that after offering to the service of the country substantially every able-bodied man in the School, maintaining entrance requirements intact and rejecting for deficiency in scholarship the normal percentage of those examined last year, the School is still going forward with a select student body amply sufficient to maintain its best traditions."