In other words, although less than half of the replies favor rules affecting the distribution of the period of training between law school and office, over half of those who do favor such rules seek to make office training obligatory almost always in connection with a requirement of law school training also. VI. WEIGHT ATTACHED TO JUDGMENT OF LAW FACULTY (Question 5) The statement, "degree or certificate to be requisite but not conclusive," seems to have been generally understood as meaning merely that if time has been spent in a law school, evidence of this fact must be presented, but the applicant's proficiency is still to be determined. The expression is used both by those who favor and by those who oppose ignoring the judgment of the law school faculty. An affirmative answer to 5 C is therefore treated in the following analysis as without significance: Judgment of law school faculty to be ignored. Their judgment to be accepted as decisive, at least from certain schools..... Their favorable judgment to be requisite, but to be further tested... 31 (38%) 13 3 In other words, a majority of those committing themselves on this point, though not a majority of the total number of replies, favor attaching weight to the judgment of the law school faculty. It would be natural that this question should be answered differently by those who favor rules encouraging law school study (whether with or without office training) and by those who favor no such requirement. The comparative figures are: In other words, a clear majority of those who believe in encouraging law school study favor attaching some weight to the judgment of the faculty as to the student's proficiency, as against only 37 per cent of those who, even if they favor law school study, do not favor rules positively requiring it. VII. CHARACTERISTICS TO BE POSSESSED BY LAW SCHOOLS (Questions 4 and 6) Only twenty replies specify more than a three-year course in a residential school, or vague requirements of merit or good repute. The characteristics, classified according to the weight attached to the judgment of the faculty, are: Number of jurisdictions heard from.... Criticism voiced in regard to character tests in.... The President: 44 29 (66%) 19 (43%) The Executive Committee, pursuant to the direction given to them this morning, have decided that the subject of the five Assemblymen, which was brought up this morning under the resolutions offered by Mr. Leavitt, will be set down as the special order for to-morrow afternoon immediately after recess. The Secretary: I desire to give notice of an amendment to our Constitution with regard to the amending of the Constitution, as follows: Notice is hereby given that the following amendment to the Constitution of the Association will be offered for adoption at the next annual meeting of the Association. in 1921: "This Constitution shall go into effect immediately. It can be amended only by a two-thirds vote of the members present at an annual meeting of the Association, after notice of the proposed amendment, subscribed by at least ten members, shall have been given by mail, by the Secretary, to all of the members of the Association, at least fifteen days. prior to such annual meeting, and by the vote of at least fifty members in favor of such amendment." Dated January 16, 1920. (Signed) SIMON FLEISCHMANN, MEIER STEINBRINK, SAMUEL CAPLAN, ADELBERT MOOT, CHARLES C. BURLINGHAM, GEORGE J. S. DOWLING, FRED W. CLIFFORD, ALFRED E. HINRICHS. The President: The notice will be received and placed on file as a preliminary to the amending of the Constitution. Henry W. Jessup, of New York: I desire to present the following resolution: "Resolved, That this Association disapprove of so much of the report of the Reconstruction Commission to the Governor of the State, dated October 10, 1919, published for the Executive Department by the State Printer, as recommends the inclusion of the profession of law. under the supervision and charge of the Bureau of Higher Education and University Activities (see pages 29 and 141 of the report), together with such vocations as chir opody, dentistry, nursing and embalming. That such supervision should be explicitly limited to the education. of law students. Their registration and certification as attorneys is sufficiently safeguarded by the Court of Appeals." I move that this resolution be adopted. The resolution was duly adopted. The President: Mr. Secretary, are there any proposals for membership? The Secretary: Yes, sir. Howard F. Barnes, Leon D. Howell, Harrison B. Wright, George M. Bode, Arthur E. McClary, Wm. Austin Moore. I move that they be referred to the Committee on Membership. The President: It is so ordered. William J. Baker, of Rochester: Mr. President, I desire to offer the following resolution and have it referred to the Committee on Law Reform: "WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Association that it is desirable that all citizens of these United States should fully understand and appreciate their responsibilities, obligations, duties and privileges in being citizens of this Republic; and WHEREAS, The citizen women of New York State are possessed of the same rights, privileges and duties of voting as the men ; and WHEREAS, The laws of the United States automatically naturalize the wife of a man admitted to the citizenship of this country; and WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Association that the fundamental principles of duty, patriotism, loyalty and Americanism are instilled into the minds and hearts of the |