LAW SCHOOL ENTRANCE EASED TO AID VETERANS

Men with at least one year's service in the armed forces who have gained educational experience through United States Armed Forces Institute correspondence courses, basic training, or officer's training, will not need a college degree for entrance into the Harvard Law School, it was announced yesterday by Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law and Acting Dean of the Law School up until the recent return of James M. Landis from his post as American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East.

In the School's annual report, Professor Morgan revealed the decision to break with 128 years of tradition under the stress of wartime exigencies by revoking the customary requirement of an A.B. or equivalent degree.

Revised Requirements

Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, observed unofficially last night that "it is a question of consulting the record of each individual man and making independent interpretations." While terming the situation "too amorphous" at the present time for any specific statement of policy, he indicated the Committee on Admission's intention to determine whether the applicant's entire record gives reasonable proof that he has the elements of a liberal education and probable ability to deal with legal problems faced by men admitted under pre-war standards.

Calendar Altered

The Law School's latest calendar rearrangement was also announced in the report. Under the new acceleration plan of three fifteen-week terms each year, students will be able to meet the seven-term goal in two years and fifteen weeks with the time period previously necessary for the LL.B. degree considerably shortened.

Entering classes will be admitted only in the fall at the beginning of winter terms, until an increased number of servicemen apply at other times. Thirty-five veterans are among the 160 students now in the Law School. Peacetime enrollment averaged 1,300. Established in 1817, the Law School has gained national pre-eminence chiefly through the Langdell or Harvard case system of legal instruction.