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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
We'dnes'day, September IIgfg
New Yorker
Named Law
School Prof
With the addition of Frederick
J. Ludwig to the law college staff,
the University of Nebraska can
boast one of the youngest full pro
lessors of law in this country.
Ludwig, who is only 30, leaves
the position of counsel to the New
York district attorney, to come to
the University as a criminal law
professor.
When he was only 22, he left his
job as a high school teacher to
join the Bronx police force. The
Phi Beta Kappa key which he won
from City college, New York,
opened the door of the Columbia
Law school to him, where he re
ceived his degret in 1945.
While attending Columbia, Lud
wig worked a midnight to 8 a. m.
beat as patrolman and during his
two and one-half years of school
averaged only three hours sleep
daily. Despite this apaprent handi
cap, he graduated at the top of his
class.
Ludwig, the youngest sergeant
on the police force, comes here
with the congratulations of "a fel
low cop," New York's Mayor Wil
liam O'Dwyer.
Now the iarrest in the Unlver
sity, the College of Arts and Sci
ence was also the first to func
ticL.. When the University was
founded, in 1871, Arts and Set
ences was the only one of its di
visions organized to jive instruc
tion.
Navy Initiates
New Aviation
Cadet Program
The navy has started a new avi
ation cadet program for men who
have completed two years of col
lege, Lt. Com. J. L. Landreth of
the University Navy ROTC an
nounced recently.
The first group of selectees be
gan flight training late in July,
and new classes have convened
bi-weekly since. Men between
the ages of 18 and 25 who have
completed at least two full aca
demic years of 00 semester hours
at an accredited university are
eligible for selection.
Men chosen for training must
agree to remain on active duty
for four years and to remain un
married until comimssioned. De
tailed information is available at
the University Navy ROTC office
in Lincoln, or from the office of
Naval Officer Procurement at
Kansas City, Mo.
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Law College High Standards
Set By Expert Legal Minds
Dean Praised
For Revamped
Study Course
Praised last year as being "well
ahead of many other law school"
in the nation, the University's
Law college was recognized by
the Russel Sage Foundation at
New York for recognizing the
important role of lawyers in pub
lic life.
The endorsement came in a
special report on legal education
in the U.S., made by the Sage
foundation, a private research
group. Previous Sage Foundation
studies on medical and nursing
education resulted in improved
national standards, and another
btudy on small loan agencies re
sulted in corrective legislation.
The- report said it was a "sta
tistical fact" that lawyers as elec
tive officeholders, administrators
and as influential citizens in pri
vate practice play the dominant
role in federal, state and local
government in America. They
added that law schools "would be
derelict" if they failed to train
future lawyers adequately to serve
the needs of government.
After examining the course of
study at 23 of the nation's fore
most law schools from coast to
coast, the foundation reported that
the University of Nebraska course
of study "is more largely re
oriented toward the implications
of public law, and toward mak
ing prospective lawyers realize
that public policy is inextricably
woven into private law" to a point
"well ahead of that of any other
law school."
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Acceleration of Curriculum
Brings Growing Enrollment
Swelled to the point where aptitude tests were required
last year to hold down enrollment, the University's recently
re-opened and revised Law college will open its doors
this fall with one of the finest legal backgrounds in the
nation. Tr , ,
Under the guidance of Dean Frederick K. Beutel, lab
oratory studies w n i c n lnnuue
work serving many of the pur
poses of office apprenticeship have
been instituted. Applicants must
complete only two years, instead
of the previously required three,
of work in either arts and sciences
or bizad in order to meet admis
sion eligibility requirements.
Students Hold Trials.
.Law college's annual moot court
trials give students the opportun
ity to practice application of the
theories taught them from law
books, lectures and research. Fu
ture lawyers gai experience from
these trials in the most painless
possible way then the results are
not essential to. their careers and
when they can learn from their
instructors where ;md how they
made their mistakes.
Of two general courses offered,
one requires four academic years,
and the other three, for comple
tion. The regular course of study
requires 90 semester hours of
credit and completion of both a
practice and a legislative labora
tory. The first and part of the
second year are prescribed.
jCew Course Opened.
An accelerated program during
the 1947-48 .semesters permitted
the completion of a law course in
three academic years, and was
open to students who had served
more than one year in the armed
forces and who had completed at
least three full years of college
work prior to admission to the
college. The courj-c, which re
quires 68 semester hours and one
laboratory, will be open to stu
dents fulfilling the requirements
again this fall.
Giving of professional instruc
tion since 1891 has been accom
plished by gradually increasing
the length and quality of courses
and requirements in pre-law. Law
students must be thoroughly
versed in social, economic, bus
iness and governmental activities,
as well as in legal science.
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