Junior Class.

Barton, Oswald Swinney	Glasgow, Mo.
Benton, Samuel Hart (A. B., Princeton Coll.)	St. Louis, Mo.
Bland, Edward Parks	St. Louis, Mo.
Bryan. Pendleton Taylor (A.B.. Princeton College)	St. Louis, Mo.
Cleland, Joseph McKenzie (A. B., Monmouth Coll., Ill.)	Monmouth. Ill.
Cohick, Wm. Wallace	Bridgeton, Mo.
Fisher, Allen Gaskell (A. B., McKendree Coll., Ill.)	Casey. Ill.
Ganse, Frank Wile	St. Louis, Mo.
Garvin. William Everett (B. S., Westminster College. Mo.)	St. Charles, Mo.
Gernez. John Axtel (A. B., Washington University)	St. Louis, Mo.
Hartman, Arthur Robert	St. Louis, Mo.
Hull, Edwin A	Carthage, Texas.
Jaynes, William Vinton (B.Ph., Washington University)	Sedalia. Mo.
Jump. John Watts (B.S., Christian Univ.)	Louisiana, Mo.
Langston. Edward	Bethlehem, Pa.
McConvill. Thomas	Beatrice. Neb.
McLaran, Robert Lee	St. Louis, Mo.
McMahon. George E
Nelson, David (A.B.. Monmouth Col., Ill.) Hookstown, Pa.
Nelson, HoratioPolycarp (B.A., St. Francis Solanus College, Ill.)	Shelbyville, Ill.

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Name.	Residence.
Park. M. C. II (A. B.. Waco Univ.. Tex.)	Waco. Texas.
Patrick, Edward Thomas	St. Louis. Mo.
Sayer, Dade D	La Bette. Mo.
Seeds, William Porter	Abilene. Kans.
Thompson, Sylvester H. (A. B., Lagrange Coll.. Mo.)	La Belle. Mo.
Willis. Edward Gray	St. Louis. Mo.
Williamson. Robert	St. Louis. Mo.
Wolfner, Rudolph	St. Louis. Mo.
	Total. 28.

The Law Department of Washington University (also known as the St. Louis Laic School) was formally opened on Wednesday, October 16, 1867, on which occasion an Inaugural Discourse was delivered by Hon. Samuel Treat.

The establishment of such a School was not only part of the necessary development of the University, but was deemed peculiarly appropriate in a great and growing city, offering in the number, variety and importance of the questions daily adjudicated in its tribunals, unsurpassed advantages for combining practical instruction with theoretic study of the law. During nine months in the year, beside the ordinary municipal and inferior courts, are in almost uninterrupted session the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, taking cognizance of questions in Admiralty, Revenue and Bankrupt Law, besides causes at Common Law and in Equity; also the Circuit and Criminal Courts of the State, and the St. Louis Court of Appeals; in one or other of which are constantly illustrated the learning and page 89 practice of every department of American jurisprudence.

By an Act of the General Assembly of Missouri, approved March 5. 1874, the holder of a diploma from the St. Louis Law School is entitled to admission to the Bar in any of the Courts of Missouri, upon simple motion. Since the present Revised Statutes of Missouri took effect, on November 1, 1879, it has been decided by the Supreme Court, and also by the St. Louis Court of Appeals, that this privilege is not repealed by the new provisions of the Act concerning Attorneys at Law. All other candidates for admission to the Bar are now required to be publicly examined in open court.

But the examination which must be successfully passed to obtain this diploma is not only much more thorough than the usual examination for admission to the Bar, but, it is believed, is not excelled in its severity as a test of legal knowledge by similar examinations in any American law school.

The complete course for the degree of LL. B. includes two annual terms, each of which (excluding the recess of two weeks at Christmas) occupies seven months in continuous study, beginning on the Wednesday nearest October 15th, of each year.

It is the single aim of the Law Faculty, and of the Directors of Washington University, to make this Law School a true School of Jurisprudence, to which none shall be disposed to come except those who seek a thorough elementary knowledge of the Law, and from which none who may come with that purpose shall go away disappointed.