LAW SCHOOL DUE FOR CURRICULUM CHANGES

Revision of the Law School curriculum to keep pace with the "fast-moving character of the law" was announced yesterday in the annual report of Dean Landis. The new schedule will go into effect next fall.

"Stagnation is not the course of the law; it cannot be the course of legal training" he remarked in making the announcement.

Adopted by the Faculty after long study of the findings of special committee, the new plan aims to teach the fundamentals in the first two years, and thus encourage work along lines of individual interest in the final year.

One More Hour

"Intimate contact with the faculty is thus afforded at that period in the student's training when he is deemed best capable of benefitting from it," Dean Landis declared.

The addition of new materials into the curriculum is to be accomplished by compressing the courses already there, and by increasing the classroom work in the first year one hour a week. Experimental nature of the new plan was emphasized in the report, and provision was made for a Committee on Instruction to appraise the success of the proposals and develop such changes as may seem necessary.

Complementary to the revised curri- culum is the new plan of admissions previously announced and applied for the first time this year. The plan has the purpose of raising the quality of students admitted so that the more stringent demands of the new curriculum can be met. The admission board will decide on the basis of the candidate's college grades and the records of those admitted from the same college over a seven to ten year period, whether he is a good risk.

It is hoped that this selection by a more scientific method will in time reduce "significantly" the large number of men who do not pass their first year work