LAW SCHOOL CUT TO 104 MEN AS DRAFT SLICES 1200 NORMAL

"Look at the man on your right; look at the man on your left. One of them is your roommate." Thus spoke the sages of Bow Street about the Law School early last fall. That was when the School had about 180 out of their peacetime 1300 students.

Right now they only have 104 would-be lawyers. But the Faculty has announced its intention of keeping on in spite of the draft and other forms of war work which have absorbed a large part of its students and 20 out of its peacetime staff of 30 full professors. Most prominent of the faculty to leave thus far has been Dean James M. Landis, who left a year ago to head the office of Civilian Defense in Washington.

No Three Term Symmetry

The traditional law school system, two full terms and a summer session counting two-thirds of a regular term, will also stay in operation despite the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' symmetrical three term system.

The decision not to speed up the Law School's program, via the three-term route, was arrived at after a study of the particular problems of the law student. Since the students remaining are mostly non-draftable, Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law, and acting dean of the Law School, explained that there wouldn't be much sense in speeding then up. Also, with an eye to returning students after the war, he pointed out that the Law School's term system is constructed so that a student can drop out at any time, and return not having irretrovisbly lost any vital course in the completion of his required curriculum.

No Judge Advocates Here

Unlike some other graduate departments, the Law School has had no service school to keep a semblance of a student body, and unlike some law schools from other universities, no such organization seems to be in the offing. Down in Virginia, for instance, there is a Judge Advocate School, in which civilian lawyers are commissioned and taught the ways of military justice, legal aid, and the discipline of the soldier.

The Law School, with its "no-women" policy, will keep on teaching law until the war is over, waiting to get back some of the student body it has lost. Meanwhile, the legal eagles that do come out will not suffer from a war-compressed education thought to be so necessary elsewhere.