First Students to Study in 7-Year Law Plan Near End

Two students will receive both A.B. and LL.B. when they graduate this June.

Donald Trautman and Daniel Cohen are taking advantage of the University's special seven-year plan to combine law School and College programs. Under the plan a student takes three years of College and two of Law School and divides the remaining two years between studies in both departments.

The plan was instituted in the fall of 1940 to integrate the work of the two departments and not, as many believe, to make it easier to enter law School. "It is harder, if anything," said Trautman.

Trautman and Cohen are the first men to complete the program as it was originally designed by Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government and Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration.

There are now 14, other men in the program. At an evaluation meeting last week, the students resolved that the plan was useful only if a student was sure of his intention to go into law. Many have been discouraged from taking the program because of the presentational crisis. Under the plan, neither degree is given until the end of the seventh year.

Because if is a special and limited program, much red tape is involved. Such issues as living quarters, football priorities, and methods of billing are constantly coming up. However," said Cohen, "we have never been greatly inconvenienced."