Faculty and Curriculum

All the teachers in the school except two are lawyers practising at the bar in Cleveland. Their teaching is in addition to their regular duties as practitioners. Their rate of compensation ranges from $5 to $10 per each double section hour of teaching.

Following is a list of the teachers actually teaching at the school, together with some facts about the teachers and the courses which they give:

Robert Parsons Abbey: Graduate of Cleveland Law School. In active practice eleven years. Teaches Bills and Notes two hours five days a week, running for three months. Uses text-book by Tilden with Brannan as auxiliary. Fails on an average of three men out of 20. No specimen examination paper given.

Cary R. Alburn: A.B., Adelbert College. Attended Western Reserve University Law School and Oxford University, England; B.C.L. (Oxford). In active practice twelve and one-half years. Teaches Private Corporations. Uses Clark's text-book and Wormser's Cases. Average of 7 per cent. of those taking the course fail. None, however, have failed to receive a degree in two years. One was denied a certificate of satisfactory completion of studies. Specimen examination paper submitted shows 10 questions, none of which were problems; many called for definitions and a few for general answers as to extent of liability.

John C. Barkley: Western Reserve University Law School, 1906. In active practice fourteen years. Teaches Bills and Notes twenty-six hours. Course is based upon Ohio Negotiable Instruments Code and Ohio decisions. An average of eight out of 41 students fail to pass the examination. A specimen examination paper shows 12 questions, one-half of which call for definitions and the other one-half are to a considerable extent problem questions.

Kenneth D. Carter: Attended the University of Wisconsin. Graduate of Ohio State University Law School. In active practice full time. Admitted to the bar four years. Teaches Partnership eighteen hours, using Mechem's Elements, second edition, which he completes and thereafter discusses the Ohio cases. Also teaches Constitutional Law twenty hours, using text-book by Black, third edition. Covers about five-sevenths of the text-book, with the Ohio and Federal Constitutions. Has taught the course only one year and has no record of the number of men failed. Specimen examination paper in Partnership shows a series of 10 substantial and rather ambitious problem questions.

Norton McGiffin: Graduate of University of Michigan Law School. In general practice since December, 1912. Has given Suretyship, September 15 to December 1, three hours a week, using Stearns' text-book, second edition, of which he covers all. Also taught Equity three hours a week, September 15 to December 15, using Pomeroy, students' edition, of which he omits Rights and

Interests of Married Women, Probate Law and Wills, and Mortgages. An average of from 5 to 15 per cent. of his men fail to pass the examination. Specimen examination paper shows in one case 10 ambitious problem questions and in two instances in another, a series of questions calling for definitions with but two problem questions.

Ralph T. Hisey: Western Reserve Law School, 1915. Secretary of the Pyramid Savings Co. Not in active practice. Teaches Personal Property thirty hours, using Childs' Personal Property, of which he covers all. First year as an instructor and presents no specimen examination paper and makes no report as to number of students failed.

C. T. Kirkbride: Graduate of Western Reserve Law School. In practice for fifteen years. Teaches Domestic Relations about twenty hours, using Long, Domestic Relations. Covers entire volume. Fails from 5 to 10 per cent. of men taking examination. Specimen examination paper attached shows six questions calling for definitions and four problem questions.

Dean Lawrence: Graduate of the John Marshall Law School. In practice two years, mostly office work. Teaches Torts forty hours, using text-book by Chapin, all of which is covered. Also teaches Suretyship thirty hours, using Stearns, all of which is covered. An average of from 20 to 30 per cent. of his pupils fail to pass the examination, but none fail to receive a degree and none are denied a certificate of satisfactory completion of studies for bar examination. Specimen examination paper attached shows a series of 20 questions, practically all of which are problems.

Cyrus Locher: Graduate of Western Reserve Law School. In active practice since 1907. Teaches Mortgages twelve hours. Uses no text-book. An average of 5 per cent. of his men fail to pass examination. Gives no specimen examination paper.

Dean B. Meck: Graduate of John Marshall Law School. Assistant to the Director of Law of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company. Admitted to the bar five years. Teaches Agency thirty hours, using Huffcutt on Agency, covering the entire volume. An average of about 15 per cent. of the men in his course fail to pass, and about 5 per cent. of these fail to receive a degree. About 10 per cent. fail to receive a certificate of satisfactory completion of studies for the bar examination. Specimen examination paper shows about 20 questions, of which about eight are problem questions and about 12 call for definitions or discussion of general principles.

David C. Meck: Dean of the John Marshall Law School. Graduate of the Cleveland Law School. Not in practice. Admitted to the bar eight years. Teaches Contracts one-half year, using Clark's text-book, of which he covers all, together with Throckmorton's case book and Ohio State reports. Also teaches Bailments and Carriers one-third of year, using Dobie's text-book, of

which he covers all, together with 60 cases from the Ohio State and Federal reports. Fails to pass on an average of 15 per cent. of his students. Of those taught by him who are candidates for a degree, 5 per cent. fail to receive a degree and the same number are refused a certificate of satistfacory completion of studies for the bar examination. A specimen examination paper shows 24 questions, all of them calling for definitions or the drawing of distinctions.

Edwin E. Miller: Graduate of Western Reserve Law School. In active general practice to the fullest extent. Admitted to the bar twelve years. Gives the course on Evidence thirty-five hours, using Hughes on Evidence, covering every page, including the illustrations in the back of the book. Also teaches Wills forty-three hours, covering all the text of Gardner on Wills. In addition students draw at least four wills and other papers for the Probate Court and go over a series of 40 problems formulated by the instructor. Also teaches Practical Conveyancing thirteen hours. This course is taught with a series of 11 problems. A series of these problems submitted show them to cover many of the practical details relating to Abstracts in Cleveland. Examination of a specimen paper in Evidence shows 20 to 30 questions calling for definitions or statement of particular rules of evidence for the most part; three or four were in the form of problems. A specimen examination paper in Wills shows a series of 10 questions, seven of which are problem questions. In 1920 no one failed to pass the examination in Wills and only one failed in Evidence. In 1921 there were two who failed in Evidence.

Sterling Parks: A.B., University of Michigan, 1888; LL.B., George Washington, 1894. In active practice twenty-seven years. Gives course on Real Estate, three lectures a week, four and one-half months, using Burdick's textbook. Covers practically the entire work. One specimen examination paper shows about 20 questions, practically all definitions. Another paper shows 10 questions, practically all of which are problems. Out of a class of 40 students, five failed to pass the examination given.

James B. Ruhl: Graduate of Ohio Northern Law School. Degrees B.S. M.S., LL.B., LL.M. Active practice in Cleveland since 1891. Teaches Pleading forty hours, using Phillips' text-book and covering all of the text; also Stephen's Common Law Pleading in part and Ohio decisions and statutes. Not yet had a student who did not pass. Specimen examination paper shows eight questions calling for definitions and statement of rules and one question calling for the drafting of papers.

K. T. Siddall: Graduate of Harvard Law School. In active practice eight years. Teaches course on Real Property three hours a week for six months. Uses text-book by Burdick and covers subject as treated by Burdick. None have failed to pass his examinations. Specimen examination paper shows five problem questions out of nine.

J. W. Woods: Graduate of University of Michigan Law School. Very

active practice. Admitted to the bar in 1909. Teaches Criminal Law thirty hours, using Clark's text-book, and covers entire text and procedure. Specimen examination paper shows 10 problems.

The following have been instructors at the John Marshall Law School, but are not now teaching:

1894.

Howard A. Couse: Graduate of the Yale Law School. In practice since

John H. Schultz: Graduate of Western Reserve Law School. Admitted to the bar in 1918.

E. J. Hopple: Attended Western Reserve Law School but did not graduate. In active practice sixteen years.

Edward H. Tracy: Graduate of Yale Law School. In practice since 1895. Taught Domestic Relations.

Physical surroundings of the school: Its rooms are situated on the third floor of the old court-house building facing the public square. They consist of three lecture rooms, a library and study room, office of the dean, and law fraternity room. Its library consists of the Ohio reports, United States reports, Cyc., Corpus Juris, Ohio Digest, Federal Digest, Ohio Statutes, and 50 reference text-books. No access to any other library is provided.

The school is a corporation for pecuniary profit. David C. Meck holds the largest amount of stock held by any one individual. Other stockholders are, with a few exceptions, teachers in the school. The school has only graduated one class-that of the year 1920.

HOURS OF TEACHING IN LAW SCHOOLS IN CLEVELAND

Table 1 is a comparative study of the number of hours of teaching given to the different subjects at Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland Law School, and John Marshall Law School, and other well-known law schools throughout the country.

The only subjects offered in the Cleveland Law School and the John Marshall Law School are those prescribed by the bar examiners for admission to the bar. Courses on Bankruptcy, Damages, Insurance, Quasi-Contracts, Conflict of Laws, Municipal Corporations, Mortgages, and Trusts offered at other law schools are not offered at the Cleveland Law School or the John Marshall Law School. These subjects are not in the list of subjects required to be studied to qualify the applicant for taking the Ohio State bar examinations.