Guide to the Stanford University, School of Law, Dean's
Office, Records
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Overview
Call Number: SC0080
Creator:
Stanford University. School of Law.
Title: Stanford University, School of Law, Dean's Office
records
Dates: 1906-1914
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Administrative transfer, 1970
Information about Access
The materials are open for research.
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[Identification of item], Stanford University, School of Law, Dean's Office, Records
(SC0080), Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
These records consist of one volume on registration fee cases, 1907, and five letter
books, 1906-1914, containing general correspondence from the Dean's Office on such
subjects as student recommendations, questions about entrance requirements, exams and
course credit, the Law Library and budgetary information. Most of the letters are signed
by Frederick C. Woodward, Acting Dean; those not signed by him are signed by either A.
M. Cathcart or C. H. Huberich. Recipients include David Starr Jordan, W. W. Cook, and
John Casper Branner.
Access Terms
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Stanford University. School of Law.
Woodward, Frederick J.
Collection Contents
Letterbook
1906 Nov 17 -1908 Nov 4
Scope and Content Note
This volume includes a great deal of correspondence dealing with acquisition of
material for the Law Library, including States' Session Laws, periodicals, and
books. Many letters throughout the register are concerned with finding a new dean
and also professors to fill vacancies.
Letterbook
1908 Nov 9 -1910 Apr 18
Scope and Content Note
Items of note in this volume include:
1908 Nov 9: Letter to President
David Starr Jordan about the organization of the Law School, arguing that the
School should be a graduate law
school and not
simply a department of the University.
1908 Nov 16: Letter to the
Secretary, Board of Trustees about erecting two houses on Salvatierra Street to
rent at $35/month for Professor C. A. Huston and Professor Woodward.
1909 Apr 14: Response to
President David Starr Jordan giving reasons why the Law School budget should not
be cut back.
1909 May 26: Letter to
President David Starr Jordan about the condition and needs of the Law Library.
1909 Sep 25: Letter to
president David Starr Jordan about why Palo Alto does not need a legal aid
society, one reason being that students must devote their time to studying.
1909 Oct 20: Annual report
submitted to President Jordan.
Letterbook
1910 Apr 28-1911 Nov 4
Scope and Content Note
This volume includes much correspondence advocating passage of Assembly Bill 585,
dealing with changing requirements for admission to the Bar to include a written
examination to be taken by everyone applying. Also of note is a letter to Mr. Theo
R. Hoyer about the Honor System and its methods of operation, 1910 Dec 19
Letterbook
1911 Nov 6-1913 Mar 7
Scope and Content Note
Items of note include:
1912 Jan 9: a letter to
President David Starr Jordan submitting recommendations for alteration of Law
program.
1912 Mar 16, Apr 12, and May
18: letters to W. W. Cook, Professor of Law at the University of
Chicago, about installation of the order of the Coif at Stanford.
There is
also further correspondence recommending Bill 585 and letters inquiring about
possible candidates to fill vacant professorship created by Prof. Huberich's
departure from the University.
Letterbook
1913 Mar 7 -1914 May 23
Scope and Content Note
Items of note include:
1913 Nov 4: Letter explaining
the Honor System.
1914 Feb 10: Letter to
Professor W. W. Cook to acquire constitutional amendments for the Order of Coif.
1914 Feb 18: Letter to
President John C. Branner arguing that the creation of a Political Science
department is unnecessary.
Registration Fee Cases, (no. 1-29)
1907 Jan 8
Scope and Content Note
All are signed "Notary Public in and for the County of Santa Clara, State of
California." Each is a student's testimony of his residency in California.