Every member of the Senior Class is required to write a thesis or an oration for graduation. Those electing theses must anounce their subjects by February 1 to the Dean of the Faculty, who will report them to the professors in the departments concerned. On May 2 the theses shall be read before the professors, subject to criticism and correction. The corrected and approved theses must be handed to the Registrar in type-written form on or before May 15.

The number of orations is limited to four. The candidates must be members of the Academic Department or the Department of Applied Sciences, and must announce their subjects to the Dean of the Faculty by February 1. The orations shall be delivered in private before a committee of the Faculty on May 1, who shall decide upon the relative merits of the orations. The four successful candidates are known as the Commencement Orators of the Senior Class.

ATHLETIC AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

No student will be allowed to take part in athletic contests, concerts, debates, etc., entailing absence from the University, whose parent or guardian objects to such participation.

A student who was in attendance upon the University during a previous term or session must have passed satisfactory examinations upon at least six hours of work before he will be allowed to represent the University in an athletic contest or in any other public capacity.

No student reported as deficient in a majority of his classes may participate in any athletic contest or otherwise publicly represent the University, until the deficiency is made good.

No team or club will be allowed to be absent from the University for more than five lecture days during the term.

The manager of each athletic team or musical club shall submit to the President a schedule of all engagements before positive arrangements are made.

No student shall be eligible for membership in an athletic team playing in intercollegiate contests, unless he has registered on or before October 12. No student who has received, or is receiving now, or has been promised

directly or indirectly any money or compensation in lieu of money for athletic services, shall be eligible as a player upon any athletic team representing the University, and each candidate for such position must sign a statement to the effect that he is not ineligible under this rule.

FRATERNITIES.

Undergraduate students may join fraternities after registration in their Sophomore year. Fraternity men are not allowed to pledge Freshmen to join fraternities.

THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

FACULTY.

FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., D.Sc., LL.D., PRESIDENT. JAMES CAMERON MACRAE, LL.D., Dean and Professor of Common

and Statute Law and Equity.

LUCIUS POLK MCGEHEE, A.B., Professor of Law and Equity.

KEMP PLUMMER BATTLE, LL.D., Professor of Constitutional History and International Law.

CHARLES LEE RAPER, PH.D., Associate Professor of Economics and of History.

CHARLES STAPLES MANGUM, A.B., M.D., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence.

GENERAL PLAN AND METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.

The work of the Law Department extends over two years, and embraces courses in all the ordinary legal subjects, in constitutional history, economics, and medical jurisprudence.

The first year of technical legal study is devoted to a treatment of the law of persons, property, torts, contracts, and crimes. The second year embraces a study of equity, procedure, and evidence, public and private corporations, constitutional and international law, administration, insurance, bankruptcy, and admiralty.

Instruction is given by text-books, lectures, and the study of selected and leading cases. From time to time during the term eminent lawyers and judges will deliver lectures,

ELEMENTARY AND BUSINESS LAW.

A course is also offered giving an outline of the field of law and studying more in detail the principles and forms applicable to business and commercial life. This course affords a preliminary study for those intending to pursue the regular legal course. It is elective for Juniors and Seniors in the College.

THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS.

Two years of residence are required of all students who desire to offer. themselves as candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. This degree is conferred on those who have passed approved examinations on the subjects indicated in the curriculum below, and who have, in addition, submitted approved theses on subjects satisfactory to the Dean of the Department. Applicants for this degree must have completed as a prerequisite, an academic course equivalent to that of the Freshman and Sophomore years in the College.

CURRICULUM.

FIRST YEAR.

2. Persons, Personal Property, and Contracts. Fall term, five hours.

3. Real Property. Fall term, five hours.

4. Agency, Sales, Negotiable Instruments, Partnership. Spring term, five hours.

5. Criminal Law, Torts, and Bailments. Spring term, five hours.

6.

Constitutional History and International Law. Both terms, two hours.

SECOND YEAR.

7. Evidence, Equity, and Procedure. Fall term, five hours.

8. Municipal Corporations, Insurance, Admiralty and Bankruptcy. Fall term, five hours,

9. Corporations, Administration. Wills, the Constitutions of the United States and of North Carolina. Spring term, five hours.

10.

Constitutional Law, Historical Jurisprudence, International Law.
Spring term, five hours.

11 or 12. Economics or Public Finance. Both terms, two hours.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

Professor MCGEHEE.

1. Elementary Course in first principles and plain rules of business, contract, and property law. Robinson's Elementary Law; Spencer's Commercial Law. Both terms, three hours.

2. Persons, Personal Property, and Contracts. A course, requiring five
hours of class work a week for a term, is devoted to these subjects.
After some introductory lectures on the nature of law and on the
classification of its different branches, the rights of persons is
taken up. The law of husband and wife, parent and child, guar-
dian and ward, and master and servant, and the law regulating
infants and others non compotes mentis is treated. An outline of the
law of personal property, including its divisions and species
and the mode of acquiring title thereto, follows.
This is suc-

ceeded by a study of the general principles of the law of contract.
The texts used are Blackstone's Commentaries (portions), Clark on
Contracts, and another work to be announced.
Fall term, five

hours.

3. Real Property. The basis of instruction for this course is Goodwin on Real Property and Blackstone's Commentaries. Fall term, five

hours.

4. Agency, Sales, Negotiable Instruments, and Partnership. After completing course 2 the study of the more important specific contracts is pursued. Mechem on Agency; Browne or Burdick on Sales; the Negotiable Instrument Law, with Bigelow on Bills and Notes; and Mechem on Partnership are used. Spring term, five hours.

5. Criminal Law, Torts, and Bailments. After completing course 3, the above topics are taken up. May on Criminal Law, Bigelow on