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ANNOUNCEMENT 1953-1954
REGISTER 1952-1953
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS. APRIL, 1953 THE BOSTON COLLEGE BULLETIN
Published by BOSTON COLLEGE University Heights Chestnut Hill Massachusetts
Entered as second-class matter Febmary 28, 1929 in the post office at Boston, Massachusetts Under the Act of August 24, 1912.
Bulletins issued in each volume: 3, May No. 1, March (Summer School); No.2, April (Law School); No. of Nurs (College of Arts and Sciences Intown); No.4, July 15, (School ing); No.5, July 25 (School of Social Work); No. 6, August (Graduate No. 8, School); No. 7, September (College of Business Administration); October (College of Arts and Sciences); No. 9, November 10 (Entrance, School College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, of Education); No. 10, November 25 (General Catalogue). Volume XXV April 1953 Number 2
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ANNOUNCEMENT 1953-1954
REGISTER 1952-1953
THE BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL EIGHTEEN TREMONT STREET BosToN 8, MAssACHUSETTs Telephone CApitol 7-6770 OFFICE HOURS
The Regular School Year: From Labor Day to Commencement Day, the Law School office is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Summer: From Commencement Day to Labor Day, the Law School office is open on Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; on other week days, except Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration: The Law School office will also be open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the days scheduled in the Academic Calendar for the registration of students in the Evening Division.
For further information address
THE SECRETARY BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL
EIGHTEEN TREMONT STREET
BoSTON 8, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone CApitol 7-6770 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE The Academic Calendar ------5
The Trustees of Bos.ton College ------6
The U ni versi ty Council ------7 The Law School Officers of Administration ------8
The Law School Officers of Instruction ------9 The University History and Accreditation ------11
The Law School History and Purpose ------13
Method of Instruction ------15 Morning and Evening Divisions ------16
Accreditation ------16
Pre-Legal Studies ------16 The Law Library ------18 The Law Clubs and Student Organizations ______20
Admission Requirements ------22
Admission Procedure ------23 Grading System and Academic Standing______24 Degree Requirements and Honors ______26
The Summer Session ------27 Program of Instruction______28
Expenses ------3 0 Scholarships ------31 Description of Courses______3 2 Degrees A warded in Course______4 3
Register of Students------45 The Annual Red Mass ______------54 The American Jesuit Educational Association______56 The University Directory of Boston College ______Jnside back cover 1953 S II r w r F s S II r w r F s s 11 r w r F S APRIL JULY OCTOBfR 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 91011 567891011 4 5 6 7 8 910 12 13 1415 16 17 18 1213 14 15 16 1718 11 12 13 14 15 1617 19202122232425 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18192021222324 26 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
MAY AUGUST NOYflllfR 1 2 1 l 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 17 1819 20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 31 30 31 JUNf SfPTfiiBER DfCflllfR 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9101112 6 7 8 9101112 141516171819 20 13141516171819 13 14 1516 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 1954
s 11 r w r F S S II T w r F S S II T w r F S JANUARY APRIL JULY 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4 5 6 7 8 910 4 5 6 7 8 910 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 11 12 13 1415 16 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17181920212223 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 FfBRUUY MAY AUGUST 123456 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 141516171819 20 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1516171819 20 21 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 31 30 31 II ARCH JUNf SfPTflllfR 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9101112 5 6 7 8 91011 141516171819 20 13141516171819 12 1314 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 THE LAW SCHOOL ACADEMIC CALENDAR
AcADEMIC YEAR 195 3-1954
FIRST SEMESTER
Thirteenth Annual Red Mass ______Sunday, August 23, 1953 Registration: Evening ______Tuesday thru Friday, September 8-11, 195 3 Morning______Mon. thru Thurs., September 14-17, 1953 Classes begin: Evening ------Wednesday, September 16, 1953 Morning______Wednesday, September 2 3, 19 53 Columbus Day: no classes ______Monday, October 12, 1953 Armistice Day: no classes ______Wednesday, November 11, 1953 Thanksgiving Day: no classes ______Thursday, November 26, 1953 Christmas Recess ______Thursday, Dec. 23 thru Sunday, Jan. 3, 1954 Examinations end______Sa turday, January 3 0, 19 54 Annual Retreat____ ,______Monday thru Wednesday, February 1-3, 1954
SECOND SEMESTER
Registration ______Monday thru Tuesday, February 1-2, 1954 Classes begin ______Thursday, February 4, 19 54 Washington's Birthday: no classes ______Monday, February 22, 1954 . Easter Recess ______Thursday thru Tuesday, April 15-20, 19 54 Senior examinations end______Saturday, May 29, 19 54 Other examinations end: Morning ______Saturday, June 5, 1954 Evening______Friday, June 11, 1954 University Alumni Day______Monday, June 7, 1954 Seventy-Eighth Annual Commencement ______Wednesday, June 9, 1954
AcADEMIC YEAR 1954-1955
Registration: Evening______Tuesday thru Friday, September 7-10, 1954 Morning______Mon. thru Thurs., September 13-16, 1954 Classes begin: Evening______Wednesday, September 15, 19 54 Morning______Wednesday, September 22, 1954 Fourteenth Annual Red Mass ______Saturday, October 2, 1954 6 BOSTON COLLEGE
The corporate title of Boston College is
THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
University charter. granted by the Massachusetts Legislature approved April 1, 1863; amended April 1, 1908
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
JosEPH R.N. MAxwELL, S. J. President
JoHN A. ToBIN, S.J. Secretary
EDWARD J. WHALEN, S.J. Treasurer
FRANCIS 0. CoRCORAN, S.]. ALEXANDER G. DUNCAN, S.J. THOMAS F. FLEMING, S.J. W. SEAVEY .JoYcE, S.]. WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S.J. JoHN C. O'CoNNELL, S.]. JosEPH R. WALSH, S.J. LAW SCHOOL 7
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL 1952-1953
JosEPH R.N. MAXWELL, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., LL.D. President of Boston College
FRANCIS 0. CoRCORAN, S.J., A.B., A.M., S.T.D., Dean The College of Arts and Sciences University Heights PAUL A. FITZGERALD, S.J., A.B., M.A., S.T.L., Ph.D., Dean The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University Heights W. SEAVEY JoYCE, S.J., A.B., A.M., S.T.L., Ph.D., Dean The College of Business Administration University Heights CHARLES F. DoNOVAN, S.J., A.B., M.Ed., S.T.L., Ph.D., Dean The School of Education University Heights WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., S.T.L., LL.B., Dean The Law School Boston, Massachusetts JoHN W. RYAN, S.J., A.B., A.M., S.T.L., Dean The College of Arts and Sciences Intown Boston, Massachusetts DoROTHY L. BooK, A.B., LL.D., Dean The School of Social Work Boston, Massachusetts RITA P. KELLEHER, B.S., M.Ed., Dean The School of Nursing Boston, Massachusetts PATRICK A. SuLLIVAN, S.J., A.B., M.A., S.T.L., Ph.D., Dean The School of Liberal Arts in Lenox Lenox, Massachusetts PAUL J. LucEY, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., S.T.L., Dean The School of Philosophy Weston, Massachusetts DANIEL LINEHAN, S.J., A.B., A.M., M.S., Director The Seismological Observatory Weston, Massachusetts THOMAS J. GRACE, S.J., A.B., A.M., S.T.L., D. Phil., Director The Summer School of Arts and Sciences University Heights 8 BOSTON COLLEGE
THE LAW SCHOOL
1952-1953
OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION
JosEPH R. N. MAXWELL, S.J., A.B., A. M., Ph.D., LL.D. President of Boston College
FRANCIS J. CAMPBELL, A.B., A.M. University Registrar
TEttENCE L. CoNNOLLY, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D. University Librarian
EDWARD J. WHALEN, S.J., A.B., A.M. University Treasurer
WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., S.T.L., LL.B. Dean of the Law School
JosEPH F. McCARTHY, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Registrar and Placement Officer of the Law School
STEPHEN G. MoRRISON, LL.B. Librarian of the Law School
jOHN w. RYAN, A.B. Bursar of the Law School
MARGUERITE M. O'GRADY, A.B., A.M. Secretary of the Law School
MARY M. HoLIHAN, A.B. Recorder of the Law School
MARIAN A. CHASE Placement Secretary of the Law School LAW SCHOOL 9
OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION
ANDREW A. CAFFREY, A.B., LL.B., LL.M. Associate Professor of Law Bills and Notes, Conflict of Laws, Sales
JoHN A. CANAVAN, A.B., LL.B. Instructor in Law Conflict of Laws
WILLIAM J. CURRAN, LL.B., LL.M. Assistant Professor of Law Torts, Legislation
CHARLES J. DELANEY' LL.B. Instructor in Law Domestic Relations
GEORGE J. DEVLIN, A.B., LL.B. Instructor in Law Agency, Domestic Relations
TIMOTHY H. DoNoHuE, A.B., LL.B. Instructor in Law Insurance, Workmen's Compensation
WENDELL F. GRIMES, A.B., LL.B. Associate Professor of Law Damages, Judicial Remedies, Taxation
JosEPH P. HEALEY, A.B., M.B.A., LL.B. Instructor in Law Corporate Finance
WILLIAM J. HESSION, A.B., LL.B. Instructor in Law Bankruptcy
WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S.J., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., S.T.L., LL.B. Dean and Professor of Law Juris prudence
FRANK KoPELMAN, A.B., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D. Instructor in Law Legislation 10 BOSTON COLLEGE
JosEPH F. McCARTHY, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Instructor in Law Legal Method
FREDERICK A. McDERMOTT, A.B., LL.B. Associate Professor of Law Evidence, Wills and Trusts
STEPHEN G. MoRRisoN, LL.B. Instructor in Law Legal Research
CoRNELius]. MoNIHAN, A.B., LL.B. Professor of Law Business Associations, Property
ALEXANDER NEKAM, J.U.D., S.J.D. Associate Professor of Law Debtors' Estates, Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure
WILLIAM J. O'KEEFE, A.B., LL.B. Professor of Law Contracts, Legal Method, Municipal Corporations
JoHN D. O'REILLY, ]R., A.B. LL.B., LL.M. Professor of Law Constitutional Law, Future Interests, Security
LEO A. REED, LL.B. Instructor in Law Equity Practice and Procedure
RoBERT M. RoDMAN, A.B., LL.B. Instructor in Law Massachusetts Practice
EMIL SLIZEWSKI, A.B., LL.B. Associate Professor of Law Crimes, Future Interests, Wills and Trusts
RICHARDS. SuLLIVAN, A.B., LL.B., LL.M. Professor of Law Equity, Labor Law, Trade Regulations LAW SCHOOL 11
THE UNIVERSITY
Boston College is one of the twenty-eight colleges and univers1t1es in the United States conducted by the Society of Jesus. The Boston College Law School is one of the thirteen American law schools conducted by the same Jesuit Order.* The university traditions of Boston College and its Law School are the product of four centuries of academic experience and educational idealism of the Society of Jesus which, since ·iots foundation by Ignatius Loyola in 15 34, has established and conducted institutions of higher learning in all parts of the world. The foundation of Boston College arose from the foresight and energy of John McElroy, S.J., the Superior of the first Jesuit community in New England. This communi~y, still located in famous Old Saint Mary's in the North End of Boston, was established in 1849. Eight years later, with the Society's traditional devotion to higher education and despite strong opposition stemming from the b.igotry of the times, Father McElroy secured a tract of land and erected a group of collegiate buildings on Harrison A venue in Boston. He was ably assisted in this undertaking by an eminent group of civic leaders of all religious faiths, headed by the honorable Alexander H. Rice, then Mayor of Boston and subsequently Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston College was legally incorporated by an act of the Massachu setts Legislature, approved April 1, 1863, by the Bay State's great Civil War Governor, the honorable John A. Andrew. The university charter authorized the Trustees of Boston College to confer all degrees usually granted by universities in the Commonwealth, except medical degrees. This single restriction in the university charter was removed by legislative amendment approved April 1, 1908. The public opening of Boston College was delayed by the outbreak of the Civil War, and for a short time the buildings were used as a House of studies for student members of the Society of Jesus. However; formal collegiate instruction was commenced on September 5, 1864, under the deanship of Robert Fulton, S.J., and the presidency of John Bapst, S.J. Ten years before, on October 14, 1854, in Ellsworth, Maine, John Bapst, S.J., was attacked by a bigoted mob, beaten, tied to a tree, tarred and feathered, and was nearly burned to death. He survived to become the :first President of 'Boston College and one of the most beloved :figures in New England history. The College he inaugurated has developed into one of the foremost institutions of higher education in the United States. It has predicated its growth upon a rigid adherence to the high scholastic standards which characterize the ceducational ideals and the university traditions evolved by the Jesuit Order in its four hundred years of world wide experience in conducting institutions of higher learning.
• These institutions are listed on Page f 6. 12 BOSTON COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS
Fifty years after the foundation of Boston College, there occurred the most significant development in its university history. In 1913, under the presidency of Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., one of the most far-sighted administrators in its history, the site of Boston College was transferred from Harrison Avenue in down-town Boston to the present extensive and picturesque campus on Chestnut Hill. University Heights, one of the most beautiful collegiate campuses in the United States, lies partly in the City of Boston and partly in the City of Newton. It is on an eminence adjacent to and overlooking the graceful twin lakes of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The buildings already erected on University Heights, Bapst Hall, Fulton Hall, Devlin Hall, Lyons Hall, and Saint Mary's Hall, grouped around the great central tower of Gasson Hall, some of which are pictured in .this Bulletin, have been universally acclaimed as unsurpassed monu ments of Collegiate Gothic in America. In addition are O'Connell Hall and Southwell Hall, for resident students, and several temporary buildings to accommodate the rapidly growing student body of Boston College. Since the transfer of the campus to University Heights, other schools have been founded and added to the original College of Arts and Sciences. The Gradute School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Admin istration, the School of Education, and the Summer Session are conducted at University Heights. At the present time, the Law School, the College of Arts and Sciences Intown, the School of Social Work, the School of Nursing, and the Institute of Adult Education are conveniently located in down-town Boston. The School of Liberal Arts in Lenox occupies the famous Shadowbrook Estate in the heart of the Massachusetts Berkshires. The School of Philosophy is situated in Weston, Massachusetts. The latter two schools are restricted to student members of the Society of Jesus. The internationally known Boston College Seismological Observatory is located on the Weston Campus, about six miles from University Heights.
AccREDITATION
Boston College is a member of or accredited by the following educa tional associations: The American Council of Education, the Association of American Colleges, the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the Association of American Law Schools, the Section on Legal Education of the American Bar Association, the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, the American Association of Schools of Social Work, the American Chemical Society, the National Catholic Educational Association, the American Jesuit Educational Asso ciation, and other similar organizations.
LAW SCHOOL 13
THE LAW SCHOOL
The Trustees of Boston College, with the active support and cooper ation of many eminent members of the bench and bar in Massachusetts, established the Boston College Law School in 1929. Formal instruction was commenced on September 26, 1929, and the first class was graduated on June 15, 1932. With the graduation of this first class, the Law School was officially approved by the Section on Legal Education of the American Bar Association. Upon its first application, in 19 3 7, the School was elected to membership in the Association of American Law Schools. Although women students were not admitted to the School until 1940, there has never been any discrimination of any kind in the Boston College Law School on the grounds of race, creed, color or national origin. At the present the Law School is located in down-town Boston at eighteen Tremont Street, a few steps from the federal, state and municipal courts, the State House and the State Library. The world-famous Public Library of the City of Boston is but a few minutes away.
THE NEw LAw ScHOOL BuiLDING
Boston College will begin the construction, in the Fall of 1953, of a new Law School Building on the campus at University Heights. This new building will contain, besides ample provisions for administrative and faculty offices and classrooms, a Law Library with a main Reading Room seating comfortably more than two hundred students, a smoking and Browsing Room shelving quasi-legal materials, a stack capacity of more than two hundred thousand volumes, thirty-six individual study carrels in the stacks for special research work, seminar rooms, a Moot Court Room, an attractive Students' Lounge and Students' Cafeteria, students' lockers and other conveniences which will make the Law School a completely self-contained unit on the University Heights campus. It is hoped that the new building will be ready for occupancy by the Fall of 19 54, or at least before the beginning of the second semester in Feb ruary, 195 5.
The new building will be of contemporary architecture, but reflecting the Collegiate Gothic of the undergraduate buildings on the Heights. It will be named after Thomas More (1478-1535) saint and martyr, lawyer and judge, humanist and humorist, Lord Chancellor of England, and one of the great personages of world history. The heating and ventilation facilities of the new building will be sufficient to provide for the future construction of an Auditorium wing, which will make the Law School a Law Center, and of a Law School Dormitory. The new building is designed to provide every necessary and useful facility for students who wish to pursue the study of law in an atmosphere of scholarship and culture, sur rounded by extraordinary architectural and natural beauty. 14 BOSTON COLLEGE
PuRPOSE OF THE LAw ScHOOL
The purpose of the Boston College Law School is to prepare young men and women of intelligence, industry and character, for careers of public service in the administration of justice; to equip them for positions of leadership in advancing the ideals of justice in our democratic society. With this two-fold objective, students are given a rigorous training in the principles and rules, the standards and techniques of the law, not as positivistic ends in themselv~s, but as rational means, capable of constant improvement, to the attainment of objective justice in civil society. For the Boston College Law School is dedicated to the philosophy that there is in fact an objective moral order, to which human beings and civil societies are bound in conscience to conform, and upon which the peace and happiness of personal, national and international life depend. The mandatory aspect of the objective moral order is called by philoso phers the natural law. In virtue of the natural law, fundamentally equal human beings are endowed with certain natural rights and obligations to enable them to attain, in human dignity, the divine destiny decreed for them by their Creator. These natural rights and obligations are inalienable precisely because they are God-given. They are antecedent, both in logic and in nature, to the formation of civil societies. They are not granted by the beneficence of the state; wherefore the tyranny of a state cannot destroy them. Rather it is the high moral responsibility of civil society, through the instrumentality of its civil laws, to acknowl edge their existence and to protect their exercise, to foster and facilitate their enjoyment by the wise and scientific implementation of the natural law with a practical and consonant code of civil rights and obligations. The construction and maintenance of a corpus juris adequately im plementing the natural law is a monumental and perpetual task demanding the constant devotion of the best brains and the most mature scholarship of the legal profession. For the fundamental principles of the natural law, universal and immutable as the human nature from which they derive, require rational application to the constantly changing political, economic and social conditions of civil society. The application of the natural law postulates change as the circumstances of human existence change. It repudiates a naive and smug complacency in the status quo. It demands a reasoned acceptance of the good, and a rejection of the bad, in all that is new. It commands a critical search for the better. It requires an exhaustive scrutiny of all the available data of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and every other pertinent font of human knowledge. Of primary importance, it insists that the search for a better corpus juris be made in the light of the origin, nature, dignity and destiny of man; and in the knowledge of the origin, nature, purpose and limitations of the state. This is the traditional American philosophy of law, the philosophy upon which this nation was founded and to which this nation, by its most solemn covenants and usages, is dedicated. It is opposed today, even LAW SCHOOL 15
by some within the legal profession, by the philosophies of pos1t1V1sm, pragmatism, realism and utilitarianism-all of which have an ideological common denominator in subjectivism-and none of which can offer an intellectually adequate reply to the destructive philosophy of totali tarianism. The Boston College Law School is deeply conscious of this heritage of the American philosophy of law. It is profoundly aware of its educa tional responsibility to the students who seek its instruction, and of its civic responsibility to the people who look to its graduates for profes sional service and civic leadership. H ence, it strives to impart to its students, in addition to every skill necessary for the every-day practice of law, an intellectual appreciation of the philosophy which produced and supports our democratic society. For it is only by the intellectual recognition and the skillful application of the natural law to the prin ciples and rules, the standards and techniques of the civil law, that civil society can hope to approach the objective order of justice and to create the condition of human liberty intended by the Creator for rational and spiritual human beings.
METHOD O F INSTRUCTION The program and method of instruction employed in the Boston College Law School is designed to prepare and equip the student to practice law wherever, in the United States or elsewhere, the Anglo-American system of law prevails. Hence, there is a thorough insistence upon the common law and upon the important statutory enactments of the federal and state governments. The laws peculiar to Massachusetts, the other New England states, and the most progressive jurisdictions of the country, are noted in all courses; but the program is not geared to merely local law. In accordance with the current development of American law, courses in the field of public law have been expanded and integrated with the traditional courses in private law. The case method of instruction, now employed in all leading Ameri can law schools, has been followed since the foundation of this School. The excellence of this method rests upon the principle that in the law, as in every other intellectual field, the most efficient training and the highest scholarship comes from an intensive study of the primary sources of knowledge. Both casebooks and textbooks are assigned for most courses; however, the textbook is designated merely for private reading supple mental to the classroom use of the casebook, which is the chief instrument of instruction. The textbook outlines expert opinion about the law; the casebook presents the primary source of legal science, the law itself, in a carefully organized selection of authoritative and significant judicial decisions which reveal the law in action, the reasons for its rules, the spirit of its growth, the trends in its development, the whole living ratio of the judicial process in its constant search for objective justice. By the case method of instruction, the student is trained in the science of the law, in the art of legal analysis, and in the solution of 16 BOSTON COLLEGE legal problems by the same practical process of reasoning and research which he must utilize in his subsequent professional career. He is given a rigorous training to enable him to analyze and marshal complicated facts, to evaluate the social problems involved, to discern therein the real issues of law, to discover the pertinent legal principles and standards, to find the applicable case and statute law, and to solve the legal problem by an accurate and logical use of principle and authority. All students are required to make diligent preparation of assigned work and to partici pate actively in the classroom discussion of cases and materials. They are encouraged to confer privately with members of the Faculty at all reasonable times.
MoRNING AND EvENING DIVISIONS The study of law is a difficult and exacting pursuit of the gravest individual and social importance. Hence, it is the policy of the Boston College Law School to urge all candidates to enroll in the. full-time Morning Division, which is designed for students who devote their entire time to the study of law. Classes in the Morning Division are conducted daily from Monday through Friday. The normal class load is thirteen hours weekly. The course is three academic years. For the benefit of those who find it impossible to devote full time to the study of law, the School conducts an Evening Division which is substantially equivalent to the Morning Division in its program of instruction, the personnel of its instructors, the total number of class hours and credits, and the character and grading standards of its examin ations. To reduce transportation time and to conserve the maximum time for study and classroom preparation, classes in the Evening Division are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. The normal class load is nine hours weekly. The course is four academic years.
AccREDITATION The Boston College Law School is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. It is fully approved by the Section on Legal Education of the American Bar Association, and by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. These are the only recognized accrediting agencies for law schools in the United States.
PRE-LEGAL STUDIES The minimum quantitative requirement for admission to the Boston College Law School as a regular student and candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Laws is three fourths the number of credits acceptable for a specific degree at an approved college or university. Credits earned in the armed forces must be evaluated and accepted by the approved college or university which the veteran last attended, or in which he earned the major part of his collegiate credits. If such an evaluation is impossible, credits earned in the service will be evaluated by the College of Arts and Sciences of Boston College. LAW SCHOOL 17
Specific pre-legal courses are not prescribed; and college courses which undertake to teach law expressly, such as "Business Law" or "Commercial Law" or "Corporation Law", are not advisable. A sound pre-legal education should develop in the future law student a clear reasoning power, a facility of accurate expression, a mature balance of judgment, and an ability to appreciate the moral, social and economic problems involved in the administration of justice in modern society. For this purpose, a rigorous liberal arts program is recommended. However, because the field of law covers the whole range of social activity, there is hardly any sound collegiate program which cannot be made an apt instrument for pre-legal training. In the choice of elective courses, the selection of professors is more important than the selection of courses. It is strongly urged that pre-legal students elect professors who exact a large volume of work and independent thinking from their classes. Law study is arduous and critical; it cannot be pursued successfully by mere cramming of information or memorizing predigested professorial dicta. Electi:ve courses may be taken profitably in accounting, in the fields of economics and sociology, and in American and English constitutional history.
LEGAL APTITUDE TEST Except for applicants for scholarship aid, candidates for admission to the Boston College Law School are not required, although they are advised, to take the legal aptitude test conducted by the Educational Testing Service of New Jersey. This test is conducted several times annually in the major cities of the United States. For information and application form write the Educational Testing Service, Post Office Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey. Examinees should request that the results of the test be forwarded to the Boston College Law School. Applicants for scholarships are required to take this aptitude test and submit the results to the Committee on Scholarships. 18 BOSTON COLLEGE
THE LAW LIBRARY
The Law Library at present contains more than thirty thousand vol umes and substantial additions are made each year. The Library contains several sets of the United States Reports, the Massachusetts Reports, the reports of the other New England States, the reports of substantially all other state courts of last resort, the entire National Reporter System, the Illinois Appellate Courts Reports, the English Reports Full Reprint, the Law Reports, the All England Law Reports, the Times Law Reports, and the Dominion Law Reports which contain reports of cases from all of the courts of Canada. The section of annotated reports includes such reports as the American Decisions, the American Reports, the American State Re ports, the Lawyers' Reports Annotated, the American Law Reports, the American and English Annotated Cases, the English Ruling cases, and the Lawyers' Edition of the United States Supreme Court Reports.
In accordance with the development and increasing importance of public law in the United States, the Library contains a large section of public law materials, particularly the reports and decisions of admin istrative bodies, such as the Public Utilities Reports, the Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents, the reports of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Ex change Commission, the Board of Tax Appeals and the Tax Court, the National Labor Relations Board, the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Comp troller General of the United States, the Attorney General, the Depart ment of the Interior, Civil Aeronautics Board, the Court of Claims, and the Treasury Department. The publishers of the several loose-leaf services have placed further emphasis on the importance of this material by at tempting to make available as rapidly as possible all current materials. By integrating the law and regulations with the administrative interpre tations and decisions, all necessary information is gathered into one loose leaf set on a given subject. The Library has among others, the Bureau of National Affairs' Labor Relations Reporter and the United States Law Week, Commerce Clearing House's Federal Tax Service, Federal Securities Law Service and the Congressional Index as well as Prentice-Hall's Ameri can Labor Cases, Corporation Service and the Wills, Estates and Trusts Service.
In its section of statutory material, the Library contains the United States Statutes at Large, the United States Code Annotated, the Massachu setts Statutes, the Annotated Laws of Massachusetts, the statutes of the other New England States, the statutes of a large number of other states, LAW SCHOOL 19
the Statutes at Large and the Public General Statutes of England, and Halsbury's Statutes of England.
The Library contains all current la~ journals and reviews, and a large section of treatises and text-books. The standard legal digests and encyclopedias are available, such as the American Digest, the Supreme Court Digest, Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure, Ruling Case Law, Corpus Juris and Corpus Juris Secundum, American Jurisprudence, the Massa chusetts Digest, the Federal Digest, the English and Empire Digest, Words and Phrases, Halsbury's Laws of England and the Canadian Abridg ment. The Library is a depository of the works on International Peace of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace.
The Law Library is supervised by a full-time librarian and a staff of assistants. It is open for the use of students from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays; from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Satur days; and from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays.
THE ]AMES B. CARROLL READING RooM
Additional library facilities are available to the students of the Boston College Law School through the generosity of the late Mrs. Mary E. Car roll of Springfield, Massachusetts, who donated to the School the entire personal law library of her husband, the Hon. James B. Carroll, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. This large collection, valuable for its contents and its memories, is shelved in a special section of the main Law Library designated as the James B. Carroll Reading Room. A large oil painting of the late Mr. Justice Carroll is enshrined in the midst of the books which he used so skillfully and de votedly during his seventeen years of eminent public service on the supreme judicial tribunal of Massachusetts.
In addition to the Law School Library, the University Library of Boston College, which is situated on the campus at University Heights and contains more than two hundred thousand volumes, is available to the students of the Law School. Students have easy access to the world famous Public Library of the City of Boston, which contains more than two million volumes, and to the Massachusetts State Library of more than six hundred thousand volumes. 20 BOSTON COLLEGE
THE LAW CLUBS
The Law Clubs and the Bostonia Competition provide a most im portant supplement to the formal academic instruction of the Boston College Law School. The purpose of the Law Clubs is to give the student practical instruction and experience in the analysis of legal problems, in the use of law books and legal research, in brief writing, and in the preparation and presentation of cases before appellate courts.
Students participating in law club work are divided into small volun tary groups of eight comprising the various law clubs. Although mem bership is voluntary, all students are encouraged to take part because of the valuable training and experience derived from the activities of the clubs. Practicing attorneys are appointed as Law Club Instructors, whose function is to guide and to criticize the work of club members.
Cases of varying difficulty and complexity are assigned to the dif ferent clubs according to the amount of formal instruction already re ceived by the members of the particular clubs. The assigned problem is analyz~d, briefs are prepared, and the case is argued on an intra-club basis before the Law Club Instructor. Subsequently, the cases are prepared and argued on an inter-club basis before courts composed of Law Club Instructors and members of the Law Faculty. At the conclusion of each inter-club argument the court delivers a criticism and appraisal of the preparation, the briefs, and the argumentation of the case. Outstanding law club work is officially noted on the students' academic record.
THE BosTONIA CoMPETITION
The assignment of cases to the various law clubs is arranged so that the inter-club arguments form a competitive scheme which by a process of elimination, culminates in the final argument of the Bostonia Com petition. Each year the final argument of the Bostonia Competition is conducted in public before a court composed of Justices of the State and Federal Courts. ·
Students who argue cases in the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and in the final argument of the Bostonia Competition have the fact honorably noted in their official scholastic records.
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THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The Student Council affords a ready means of contact between the student body, the Alumni and the Faculty of the Law School. It provides an opportunity for the expression of student opinion, and for consultation with the Dean and Faculty on all matters affecting the interests and wel fare of the student body. The membership of the Student Council is de termined partly by election and partly by academic standing, being com posed of the president and highest ranking student in each class. If the president of a class is also its highest ranking student, the second ranking student is appointed to the Student Council.
THE NISI PRIUS CLUB
The Nisi Prius Club is an informal organization, under the direction of a member of the Faculty, which supplements formal classroom in struction by providing a forum for the discussion of the law in action. Bi-monthly meetings are conducted at which addresses are delivered by members of the judiciary, administrative officials, and practicing attorneys in specialized fields. Particular attention is devoted to the practice and procedure of courts and administrative agencies. An open discussion period follows each address. Membership in the Club is open to students of all classes.
THE SAINT THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
The Saint Thomas More Society is a voluntary organization devoted to Catholic activities and the study of the interrelation of the civil law and Catholic principles. The Society conducts an annual retreat and sponsors five communion breakfasts during the academic year. The break fasts are featured by an informal talk and open discussion period on Catholic aspects of legal problems. Membership in the Sociecy is open to all students. 22 BOSTON COLLEGE
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants for admission to the Boston College Law School as regular students, candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, must possess a bachelor's degree from an approved college or university; or, at the mini mum, must have completed:
Quantitatively, three-fourths the credits acceptable by an approved college or university for a specific academic degree; qualitatively, such credits must have been earned with a grade average, based upon all work undertaken, at least equal to the average required for such degree.
SPECIAL STUDENTS
A limited number of applicants, who cannot meet the requirements for admission as regular students, may be accepted as special students. The category of special students is not designed for applicants whose col legiate work is qualitatively unsatisfactory. Applicants for admission as special students must present substantial evidence that, by reason of ex perience and achievement, their informal education has equipped them adequately to pursue the study of law. Special students must take the regular hw course under the same standards and conditions as regular students; upon the successful completion of the course, they are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
AUDITORS
A limited number of applicants, who do not wish to study for a degree, but who desire to enroll in specific courses may be admitted as auditors. Applicants for admission as auditors must present evidence of their capacity to pursue such courses with profit. Auditors must prepare and participate in classroom discussions; they are not required to take ex aminations, but may elect to do so. Normally, credit will not be certified for such work. LAW SCHOOL 23
ADVANCED STANDING An applicant qualified for admission as a regular or special student, who has satisfactorily completed part of his law course in another law school, approved by the Association of American Law Schools or by the American Bar Association, may be admitted to upper classes with advanced standing. The amount of credit granted for such previous work is dis cretionary with the Committee on Admissions. At least two complete semesters will be required in residence at Boston College immediately pre ceding the award of a degree.
ADMISSION PROCEDURE
Applicants for admission to the Boston College Law School should communicate with the Registrar, Boston College Law School, 18 Tremont Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts. Official application forms and any de sired information concerning admission requirements or procedure will be furnished. Application must be made in writing upon the official form; and, as noted therein:
1. Official transcripts of all collegiate, graduate and professional study must be sent directly to the Registrar of the Boston College Law School by the registrars of the institutions in which such work has been done.
2. Letters of recommendation concerning the applicant must be sent directly to the Registrar of the Boston College Law School by three responsible persons, not relatives and pr-eferably attorneys in practice. 3. An application fee of five dollars ($5.00) must be sent to the Registrar, in the form of a check or money order payable to the order of the Boston College Law School. This application fee will be refunded if the application is rejected. When the completed application form, all requisite transcripts, let ters of recommendation, and the application fee have been received, the applicant will be advised by mail of the decision upon his application.
REGISTRATION
Successful applicants must register personally in the Registrar's Office before or during the regular registration period indicated in the current Law School Bulletin. As a means of identification, particularly for place ment purposes, each applicant is required to present, at the time of reg istration, a recent unmounted passport-size photograph. 24 BOSTON COLLEGE
GRADING SYSTEM
Academic standing is determined by written examinations conducted at the conclusion of each course. The quantitative unit of credit is the semester hour, which is equivalent to one hour of class work per week for one semester of not less than sixteen weeks duration. The qualitative standard determining academic standing, advancement and graduation, is the grade quotient as explained below.
Academic achievement in each course is indicated by the following grades, to which are assigned the following point values per semester hour: A+ 10 B+ 7 C+ 4 F 0 A 9 B 6 c 3 p A- 8 B- 5 D 2 X-I The point value of the grade attained in each course is multiplied by the number of semester hours devoted to the course, the result indicating the number of grade points earned in the course. For any given period of time, academic standing is determined by dividing the total number of grade points earned during the period by the total number of semester hours undertaken. This result is the grade quotient, which is cumulative throughout the student's law school career.
Grade C indicates a satisfactory pass, grade D a low pass, and grade F a failure. The symbol P indicates a passing grade in a course originally failed: its value (X-1) is one point less than the value of the grade (X) attained in the re-examination. Thus, in a re-examination, D= 1, C=2, C + = 3, and so forth. A student with an F grade, if permitted to re main in the School, has the privilege of taking the next regular examina tion in the course. If this privilege is not exercised, or if the re-examina tion is failed, the original F becomes permanent. A student exercising the re-examination privilege must fulfill the current examination require ments of the course. Special examinations are never given, except when a course is discontinued or when no regular examination is scheduled prior to graduation. · .
For advancement with satisfactory standing, and for graduation, the student must earn, on the basis of all work undertaken, a cumulative grade quotient of at least 3.0-which is the equivalent of a general weighted average of C. The cumulative grade quotient, rather than the individual course grades, is the critical standard determining academic standing. LAW SCHOOL 25
AcADEMIC STANDING The general academic standing of a student, at any determined given time, 1s by his cumulative grade quotient as follows:
Above 6.9- summa cum laude 6.6 to 6.9- magna cum laude 6.0 to 6.5- cum laude 5.0 to 5.9- Deem's list 3.0 to 4.9- satisfactory Below 3. 0 - deficient
A student with deficient academic standing, if permitted to tinue in the con School, is automatically and without official notification probt~tion. Whenever, on after any examination period, a student's academic record, in the judgment of the Faculty, raises substantial doubt as to his ability to complete the entire law course with a cumulative grade quo tient of 3.0, he may be advised to withdraw; whenever a student's aca demic record, in the judgment of the faculty, warrants the conclusion that he cannot complete his entire law course with a cumulative grade quotient of 3.0, he will be officially excluded for failure to attain or maintain the required grade quotient.
A student who has been excluded from the School because of a de ficient grade quotient has the privilege of one written petition to faculty for reinstatement. the The purpose of this privilege is solely to pro vide the excluded student with an opportunity to present to the Faculty specific facts, not contained in the academic record, which rebut the pre sumption of the record. Reinstatement is never granted unless the writ ten petition convinces the Faculty that extraordinary circumstances have deprived the student of a fair and reasonable opportunity to prepare for the examinations which caused his exclusion. Reinstatement, if granted, will be on terms appropriate to each case. If the terms of provide reinstatement for the repeating of an academic year, the grades repetition earned in such will be substituted in toto for the grades earned year. the previous
Regula" attendance and diligent preparation of all assigned work required. For excessive is absences or inadequate preparation of class work, students may be excluded from the School for unsatisfactory application. Law students may not register in any other department of Boston Col lege, or in any other college or university, without the written consent of the Dean of the Law School. 26 BOSTON COLLEGE
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
degree of Bachelor of The Trustees of Boston College confer the Faculty of the Law School. Laws upon candidates recommended by the must complete the entire law To merit such recommendation candidates in the Program of In course, as prescribed by the Faculty and outlined (76) semester hours taken for struction, with a minimum of seventy-six based upon all work under credit and with a cumulative grade quotient, taken, of at least 3.0.
Laws must follow the All candidates for the degree of Bachelor of a full program during the prescribed schedule of courses and must carry be varied, in the discretion regular academic year. This requirement may in writing. Courses taken of the Dean, but only for good cause presented be considered good cause for in the Summer Session will not ordinarily prescribed for the regular decreasing the required number of credit hours academic year.
the degree of Bachelor The minimum period of required residence for in the Morning Division, and of Laws is three years (six full semesters) Division. Students ad four years (eight full semesters) in the Evening must complete at least mitted with advanced standing to upper classes immediately preceding two full semesters in residence at Boston College the award of a degree.
the right to re-enter Leave of absence from the Law School, with granted only for good cause and resume candidacy for a degree, will be who withdraws from the presented in writing to the Dean. A student Dean, may be re-admitted to School, without leave of absence from the under the terms imposed by, the School only upon written petition to, and approved in each case by the Faculty. Except for extraordinary reas~ms, requirements for the degreee the Faculty, all students must complete the the date of enrollment in of Bachelor of Laws within four years from from the date of enrollment the Morning Division, and within five years in the Evening Division.
to the Evening A student may not transfer from the Morning presented in writing and Division, or. vice versa, except for good cause such a transfer are cau approved by the Dean. Students who make as such, they cannot tioned that they thereby become irregular students; of courses to enable them to be given any guarantee of the availability LAW SCHOOL 27
graduate within a specific time. Applicants for admission are cautioned that the program of studies in the Morning Division demands full-time study; the Evening Division is conducted for the benefit of those who find it necessary to engage in outside employment.
HoNoRs
The following honors are awarded with the degree of Bachelor of Laws: cum laude, to students compiling a grade quotient of 6.0 to 6.5; magna cum laude, to students compiling a grade quotient of 6.6 to 6.9; summa cum laude, to students compiling a grade quotient above 6.9. Grade quotient requirements for honors may be modified, in the discretion of the Faculty, by consideration given for outstanding achievement in law club work.
The Law Faculty reserves the right to change the requirements for admission, the program of instruction, the requirements for degrees and honors, and all regulations affecting the student body, whenever such changes are deemed necessary or advisable. Such changes may be made applicable to students already enrolled in the School.
THE SUMMER SESSION
The Law School conducts a six-week Summer Session each year. Students are encouraged to broaden the scope of their legal education by taking courses in the Summer Session. Such optional courses will not, however, accelerate the date of graduation; and they will not normally lessen the class load during the regular school year. Credits and grades received in summer courses will be integrated with the credits and grades of the previous school year in the determination of academic standing. Students in good academic standing at other approved law schools are wel come to enroll for summer courses at Boston College.
GRADUATE LAW COURSES
Courses leading to the degrees of Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science have not yet been offered in the Boston College Law School. It is planned, however, to inaugurate such graduate courses as .soon as the proposed new Law School Building is ready for occupancy. It is hoped that graduate students will be admitted in September, 19 54. The program of graduate studies, admission and degree requirements, will be published later in this Bulletin. 2& BOSTON COLLEGE
PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION
MORNING DtVJSION
First Semester Hours SecQnJ Semester Hours Credits FIRST YEAR Contracts 3 Contracts 3 6 Crimes 2 Crimes 2 4 Property 3 Property 2 5 Remedies 2 Remedies 2 4 Torts 3 Torts 3 6 Legal Method (2) Agency 2 2
13 14 27
SECOND YEAR Constitutional Law 2 Constitutional Law 2 4 Equity 3 Equity 2 5 Wills and Trusts 2 Wills and Trusts 3 5 Bills and Notes 3 Sales 3 6 Future Interests 3 Security 3 6
13 13 26
THIRD YEAR Business Associations 3 Business Associations 2 5 Conflict of Laws 2 Conflict of Laws 2 4 Evidence 2 Evidence 2 4 Elective 3 Jurisprudence 2 5 Electiv& 3 Elective 3 6
13 11 24 Tot:~l 77 ELECTIVE CouRSES Administrative Law International Law Bankruptcy Labor Law Comparative Law Legal Accounting Corporate Finance Legislation Damages Municipal Corporations Domestic Relations Public Utilities Equity Practice Taxation Federal Jurisdiction Trade Regulation Insurance Workmen's Compensation LAW SCHOOL 29
PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION
EVENING DIVISION
First Semester Hours SeC'Vnd Semester Hours Credits FIRST YEAR Contracts 3 Contracts 2 6'' Crimes 2 Crimes 2 4 Remedies 2 Remedies 2 4 Torts 2 Torts 3 5 Legal Method (2)
9 9 19
SECOND YEAR Property 2 Property 2 5'' Equity 2 Equity 2 4 Constitutional Law 2 Constitutional Law 2 4 Bills and Notes 3 Sales 3 6
9 9 19
THIRD YEAR Wills and Trusts 2 Wills and Trusts 2 5* Evidence 2 Evidence 2 4 Security 3 Jurisprudence 2 5 Elective 2 Elective 3 5
9 9 19
FouRTH YEAR Business Associations 2 Business Associations 2 5 >:- Conflict of Laws 2 Conflict of Laws 2 4 Future Interests 3 Elective 2 5 Elective 2 Elective 3 5
9 9 19 Total 76
*The Evening Division begins one week earlier in the Fall and ends one week later in the Spring than the Morning Division. Hence, the addi tional two weeks (eighteen class hours) each year are reflected in the credits by the addition of one semester hour of credit to the courses marked above with an asterisk. 30 BOSTON COLLEGE
EXPENSES
Tuition for each semester or summer session is payable in advance at the time of registration, - except in the case of veterans who have presented, prior to registration, certificates of eligibility to study under the benefits of Public Law 16 or 346. Registration in the School is not completed until such advance payment has been made, or certificate of eligibility has been filed, or special written arrangements have been ap proved by the Treasurer of Boston College and forwarded to the Registrar of the Law School.
TUITION Tuition in the Morning Division is $240 per semester; in the Eve ning Division, $180 per semester; payable in advance of each semester at the time of registration. Tuition in the Summer Session, or for a partial program during the regular school year, is $20 per semester hour, payable in advance at the time of registration.
FEES The application fee of $5, payable once with the formal application for admission to the School, is refunded if the application is rejected. · There is no fee for timely registration. And there are no other fees or dinarily charged in the School. However, a student failing to complete his registration on time, if permitted to register after the regular registration period indicated in this .Bulletin, will be charged a late registration fee of $5.
M E THOD OF pAYMENT Formal bills are not rendered. Payment must be made in advance by check or money order payable to the Boston College Law School. Checks and money orders should be drawn in the exact amount; the Bursar can not cash student checks.
WITHDRAWALS Student~ who are drafted or called into the armed forces will be given a full refund of tuit,on for any uncompleted and uncredited sem ester or summer session. If a student is excluded from the School for LAW SCHOOL 31 a deficient grade quotient, a refund will be made of all tuition and fees for courses undertaken after the examinations upon which the exclusion was based. If a student gives written notice of withdrawal for other causes before the expiration of the first two weeks of class, one-half the tuition will be refunded; if the withdrawal occurs after the first two weeks of class, tuition will not be refunded--except in deserving cases of hardship upon written request to the Trustees of Boston College. The Trustees of Boston College reserve the right to change the rate of tuition and fees whenever such change is deemed necessary or advis able; such changes may be made applicable to students already enrolled in the school.
SCHOLARSHIPS Applications for scholarship aid should be made in writing prior to May 15 preceding the scholastic year for which the aid is requested. Unless otherwise set out in the terms of a particular trust, all scholarships in the Boston College Law School are awarded upon the dual basis of academic ability and financial need. At present the following scholar ships are available: The John B. Creeden, S.J., Scholarships, established by the Trustees of Boston College in memory of the eminent Jesuit educator, former President of Georgetown University, whose energy and foresight resulted in the foundation of the Boston College Law School. These are four scholarships, two full and two one-half scholarships, available to out standing graduates of Boston College and Holy Cross College. Bene ficiaries must remain on the Dean's List to retain these scholarships. The Edmund Fabian O'Connell Scholarship, in the principal sum of $8000.00, established in 1946 by Patrick A. O'Connell of Boston, in memory of his son, Edmund Fabian O'Connell. The University Scholarships, of varying amounts, made available from time to time by the Trustees of Boston College, from scholarship funds applicable to students of the various schools of the University. In addition to scholarship assistance, there are a limited number of part-time positions, as Library Assistants, available to deserving students.
HousiNG The Bursar of the Law School maintains a list of private homes in which rooming facilities are available for students of the Boston College Law School. BOSTON COLLEGE
DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Casebooks and textbooks subject to change ADMINISTRATIVE LAw (3 Sem. Hrs.) Administrative tribunals in the present political and social order. Rule making powers. Procedure: right to notice; necessity, form, con tent, and service of pleadings. Conduct of hearings and procedural safeguards against abuse from administrative action. Impartiality, right to appear, issuance of subpoenas, admissibility of evidence, official notice, and the examination of witnesses. Necessity and adequacy of findings of fact. Methods and scope of judicial review. The Admin istrative Procedure Act and pertinent state statutes. Casebook: Gellhorn, Administrative Law-Cases and Comment. (2nd. ed.) AGENCY (2 Sem. Hrs.) Agency distinguished from various other legal relationships. Power of an agent to bind his principal in contracts with third parties. Lia bility of a principal for the torts of his agents or servants. Notice, ratification, and termination of the agency relationship. The mutual rights and ohligations of the principal and agent. Casebook: Mechem, Cases on Agency (3rd ed). Textbook: Restatement of the Law of Agency. BANKRUPTCY. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The constitutionality of the Bankruptcy Act and its effect on state insolvency laws. Territorial jurisdiction. Who may become bank rupts. Prerequisites to adjudication. Voluntary and involuntary bank ruptcy. Insolvency, the amount of indebtedness, petitioning creditors, acts of bankruptcy. Administration, appointment of receivers, provable claims, powers and duties of trustees, exemptions. Discharge: general jurisdiction, conditions governing the granting, denial or revocation of discharge. The new bankruptcy techniques. Casebook: Hanna and MacLachlan, Case·s on Creditor's Rights (4thed). Textbook: Hanna and MacLachlan, Bankruptcy Act of 1898 as Amended (2nd ed). BILLS AND NoTEs. (3 Sem. Hrs.) The formal requisites of negotiability; forms of acceptance, general, virtual, constructive and qualified; presentment for acceptance; deliv ery of complete and incomplete instruments. Consideration, transfer and negotiation; forms of indorsement; warranties of indorsers. The rights of holders and of holders in due course. Liability of the parties. Accommodation paper and liability of the parties thereto. Alteration of instruments, wrongful filling in of blanks, and the effect of forged indorsements. Real and personal defences. Presentment for payment, notice of dishonor, pr<>test, waiver. Discharge. Casebook: Aigler, C.ses on Bitls and Notes. Textbook.: Britton, Bills and Notes. LAW SCHOOL 33
BusiNEss AssociATIONS. (5 Sem. Hrs.) The first part of this course treats primarily of partnerships, but also of other unincorporated associations, such as joint stock companies, business trusts and limited partnerships; the formation of partnerships, partnership property distinguished from separate property and a part ner's interest therein, assignment of a partner's interests, remedies of a separate creditor, liability of firm for partner's acts, partnership obliga tions and enforcement thereof, rights of partners inter se, dissolution and settlement of partnership affairs. The second and major part of the course deals with business corporations; their organization and pro motion; corporate powers, distribution between shareholders, directors and officers, mode of exercising same; voting trusts; duties of directors, remedies available to shareholders for enforcement of same; creation, maintenance, decrease and increase of corporate capital. Casebook: Crane and Magruder, Partnership; Dodd and Baker, Bttsiness Associations. Textbook: Crane, Partnerships ; Ballantine on Corporations.
CoMPARATIVE LAw. (2 Stm. Hrs.) A comparative study of the Canon Law and the Anglo-American law of marriage. Formal requirements; impediments, diriment and im pedient; matrimonial consent, mistake, fraud, duress. Effect of the mat rimonial contract and stability of the marriage bond. The Pauline Privilege and the matrimonium non consummatum. Annulment, sepa ration, divorce, convalidation. Canonical courts and procedure. Re course to civil courts. Casebook: Mimeographed material. Textbook: Codex Juris Canonici.
CoNFLICT oF LAws. (4 Sem. Hrs.) The problem of determining the law applicable to juristic situations having contacts with more than one state or country; domicile; an ex amination of the bases of jurisdiction of states and of courts; the nature, obligation, effect, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments; the choice of law rules applied with reference to torts, workmen's com pensation, contracts, property, marriage and divorce, and problems of status; the use of the internal law of the forum; the source of rules in the Conflict of law, and the influence of the Constitution on conflict of laws problems; substance and procedure; jurisdiction to tax; the ad ministration of estates. Casebook: Cheatham, Dowling, Goodrich, and Griswold, Conflict of Laws (3rd ed). Tex tbook: Stumberg, Conflict of Laws (2nd ed). 34 BOSTON COLLEGE
CoNSTITUTIONAL LAw. (4 Sem. Hrs.) The doctrine of judicial review of legislation. Reciprocal immunities of the federal and state governments. Express and implied powers of the federal government. The commerce clause as a source of federal power and as a limitation upon the power of the states. A study of the constitutional provisions in aid of individual rights and privileges, par ticularly the due process clause and the equal protection clause. Casebook: Dodds, Cases on Constitutional Law (4th ed). Textbook: Mimeographed Materials.
CONTRACTS. (6 Sem. Hrs.) The origin and development of the contractual concept. The for mal contract and its present status in the law. Simple contracts and their fundamental elements: the offer, acceptance and consideration. The rights and obligations of third parties to contracts; third party beneficiary contracts; assignments. The scope and meaning of con tracts. Performance of contracts, express and implied conditions, im possibility of performance. Discharge of contracts, novation, release, accord and satisfaction. Illegal contracts. The Statute of Frauds. Casebook: Williston, Cases on Contracts (5th ed). Textbook: Restatement of the Law of Contracts.
CoRPORATE FINANCE. (3 Sem. Hrs.) Forms of business organization, promotion and underwriting. Cap italization of the corporation, the financial plan. Public regulation of seeurity issues. Capital stock, classes of stock and rights of the classes. Principles of borrowing, secured borrowing, bonds, notes, etc. Conver sion, refunding and redemption of bonded indebtedness. Surplus and dividend yolicies. The management of income and conservation of working capital. Causes of business failure. The expansion, consolida tion, merger and reorganization of corporations. Casebook: Berle and Magil, Cases and Materials on Corporation Finance. Textbook: Gerstenberg, Financial Organization and Management.
CRIMES. (4 Sem. Hrs.) The nature and sources of criminal law. Elements of the crime; the act and intent, general and specific, and the concurrence of act and intent. Specific crimes; assault, battery, rape, murder and manslaugh ter; larceny, embezzlement, robbery, burglary, arson, and malicious mischief. The general principles of criminal responsibility: Justifica tion and excuse, mistake, consent, entrapment, condonation, necessity, LAW SCHOOL 3 5
compulsion, coverture, infancy, insanity, intoxication. Inchoate crimes; conspiracy, attempt, solicitation. Parties in crime. Casebook: Hall, Cases on Criminal Law and Procedure. Textbook: Clark and Marshall, Crimes (4th ed).
DAMAGES. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The rules and standards applicable generally: value, interest, expenses of litigation, avoidable consequences. Damages in tort actions; injuries to the person, wrongful death, defamation and business disparagement, deceit, exemplary damages, injuries to chattels and to land. Damages for breach of contract, restriction to foreseeable losses, loss of future per formance, liquidated damages, employee's action for wrongful discharge, construction contracts, land sale contracts. · Procedural aspects, assess ment of damages, pleading, proof and trial. Casebook: McCormick, Cases and Materials on Damages. Textbook: McCormick, Damages.
DOMESTIC RELATIONS. (2 Sem. Hrs.) A study of the civil law of persons and domestic relations at com mon law and under modern statutes. The laws concerning marriage and divorce, separation and annulment. The husband and wife rela tionship; and its effect upon property, contracts, torts and crimes of husband and wife. The parent· and child relationship; infants and adop tions; effect upon property, contracts and torts. The rights and obliga tions of Catholic lawyers and judges respecting civil separation, divorce and annnulment. Casebook: Compton, Cases o1t Domestic Relations. Textbook: Madden, Domestic Relations; mimeographed materials.
EQUITY. (5 Sem. Hrs.) The historical development of equity; powers in personam and in rem. Decrees for conveyance of foreign land; injunctions against for eign suits; decrees requiring action outside the jurisdiction; injunctions against nuisances; statutory jurisdiction to enjoin crime. Specific per formance of contracts; affirmative contracts; negative covenants; dam ages in addition to or in lieu of specific performance; relief for and against transferees; equitable servitudes. Conseql!ences of right to spe cific performance; plaintiff's default, partial performance with compen sation; Statute of frauds; laches and consideration. Casebook: Chaffee and Simpson, Cases on Equity (2nd ed) . Textbook: Walsh, Treatise on Equity. BOSTON COLLEGE
EQUITY PLEADING AND PRACTICE. (3 Sem. Hrs.) Jurisdiction and venue, general and statutory; essentials of the bill; particular suits, including equitable replevin, accounting contribution, creditors' bills and fraudulent· conveyance; parties necessary and proper; cross bills, demurrers; pleas and answers; master's report, findings of the court, jury trial; preliminary, interlocutory and final decrees; en forcement. Extent and methods of appellate review. State and federal courts; removal of causes; federal jurisdiction. Casebook: To be announced. Textbook: Mimeographed materials.
EviDENCE. (4 Sem. Hrs.) Law and fact, functions of the judge and the jury; testimonial, cir cumstantial, and real evidence; relevancy, competency and privilege; writings; examinations, offer of evidence, exceptions and review of questions of law and fact. Casebook.: Morgan and Maguire, Cases on Evidence (3rd ed). Textbook: To be announced.
FEDERAL juRISDICTION AND PROCEDURE. (3 Sem. Hrs.) The constitutional limits of federal judicial power. The law applied in federal courts. The jurisdiction of federal district courts. Pro cedure under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Concurrent jurisdiction of the federal and state courts. The jurisdiction of the federal circuit courts of ap peal. The original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States. Casebook: McCormick and Chadbourne, Cases on Federal Juris diction. Textbook: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
FuTURE INTERESTS. (3 Sem. Hrs.) Reversions, remainders and executory interests at common law and under modern legislation. The creation and execution of powers of ap pointment. The construction of limitations, particularly of class gifts. The nature and application of the rule against remotely contingent in terests and related rules. Casebook.: Simes, Cases on Future Interests (2nd ed). Textbook: Simes, Future Interests.
INSURANCE. (2 Sem. Hrs.) This course deals with a consideration, in outline form, of the nature of the various types of insurance carriers, both mutual and entre preneur, with some study of the case law on fraternal benefit societies. State supervision and control of the insurance business, and its consti tutional limitations. The nature of the insurance contract; the legal requirement of an insurable interest in the insurance of property and of persons; the measure of indemnity. Exceptions to the risk implied in I
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law and in fact; the basic law on warranties, representations, and con cealment; the statutory modifications thereof, and the case law under such statutes. Casebook: Patterson, Cases on Insurance (2nd ed). Textbook: Vance, Insurance· ( 3 rd ed) . INTERNATIONAL LAW. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The nature of international law; recognition of states and govern ments; nationality; territory; jurisdiction of states; diplomatic inter course; treaties; pacific settlement of international disputes; war in m ternational relations. Cast1book: To be announced. Textbook: To be announced. juRISPRUDENCE I. (2 Sem. Hrs.) A fundamental course in the philosophy of law, designed for students whose pre-legal education does not include the course in neo-scholastic philosophy. An investigation into the ultima ratio of civil law,' as ex pounded in the philosophy of the Natural Law. The origin, nature, end and divisions of laws, rights and obligations. The existence and extent of inalienable rights. The source, purpose and limitations of civil au thority. Textbook: To be announced; mimeographed materials. juRISPRUDENCE II. (3 Sem. Hrs.) An advanced course in the philosophy of law, designed for those stu dents who have completed Jurisprudence I or whose pre-legal education includes the course in neo-scholastic philosophy. A further investiga tion into the ultima ratio of civil law, with emphasis upon various theories opposed to the philosophy of the Natural Law. Historical, Analytical and Sociological jurisprudence. The effect of Utilitarianism, Empiricism, Materialism, Pragmaticism, Realism and Totalitarianism upon current philosophies of law. Textbook: To be announced; mimeographed materials. LABOR LAw. (3 Sem. Hrs.) The historical background and the general theories of English and American trade unionism. Inducing breach of contqct or the termina tion of the employment relationship; the justification theory at common law; anti-union contracts, the effect thereon of state and federal legis lation. Picketing and the control thereof by police administration, ordinance and statute; control by injunction, and the limitations there on by state and federal legislation. The ends for which men may strike; closed shops; fines and penalties. Primary and secondary boycotts at common law, and under modern legislation. Trade agreements. Fed eral intervention under the Sherman, Clayton, Norris-LaGuardia, and National Labor Relations Acts. Casebook: Landis and Manoff, Cases on Labor Law (2nd ed). Textbook: Encyclicals, Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno. 3 8 BOSTON COLLEGE
LANDLORD AND TENANT. (2 Sem. Hrs.) General characteristics of leases; the nature of the lessee's property interest. Creation of leases and the effect of the Statute of Frauds. Pos session and the extent of the lessee's rights. Interference with the pos sessory rights of the tenant. Transfers of interests by lessor and lessee. Devolution of covenants. The nature of rent and the remedies available to enforce the obligation to pay it. Federal and state legislation and regulations concerning maximum rents. Covenants to pay taxes and assessments, and to make repairs. Termination of the tenance and its effect. Casebook: Jacobs, Cases on Landlord and Tenant (2nd ed). Textbook: To be announced.
LEGAL AccouNTING. (2 Sem. Hrs.) Principles and procedures frequently met in business law, especially in taxation. Problems in the sole proprietorship, partnership, corpora tion. Cash and accrual methods; assets, liabilities, income and expense; preparation and interpretation of statements; valuation of assets; capi tal and revenue charges. Partnership contributions, profit and loss, dis tribution and dissolution. Capital stock and bonds, dividends and re serves, surplus analysis, consolidated statements of parent and subsidiary corporations. T extbook: Legal Accottnting, Graham and Katz, (2nd ed).
LEGAL METHOD. (2 Sem. Hrs.) An introduction to the judicial process, comprising brief history of common law procedure and organization of the court system. Analysis of the manner of reading cases, case briefing, precise evaluation of the rule of a case, and the rule of stare decisis. Legal bibliography and the use of law books. Introduction to the technique of legal writing in cluding legal memoranda, briefs and case criticism. Texibook: Mimeographed materials.
LEGISLATION. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The background and development of legislation. Constitutional con ventions resolutions and resolves; initiative and referendum. Special and local legislation. Province and subject matter of legislation. The drafting of laws: the title, preamble, enacting clause, definititon and interpretation clauses. The language of statutes: vague and general terms, clauses as to severance, exceptions and provisos. Interpretation of statutes. The time of taking effect of statutes; emergency clauses. Amendment, abrogation, and repeal. Casebook: To be announced. Textbook: Mimeographed materials. LAW SCHOOL 3 9
MASSACHUSETTs PRACTICE. (2 Sem. Hrs.) (non-credit) Matters for consideration prior to commencement of civil actions; forms of actions; jurisdiction; venue; process; attachments; parties; the forms of pleadings, from declarations, answers, demurrers, etc., through motions to entry of final judgment; miscellaneous matters preliminary to trial, including interrogatories, notice to admit facts and the pre trial system; and introduction to trial procedure. Textbook.: Rodman, Massachusetts Procedural Forms.
MuNICIPAL CoRPORATIONS. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The nature of municipal corporations as part of the present-day po litical society. The creation of municipal corporations and the prob lems of annexation and subdivision. Legislative control, and contrast~ ing areas of home rule. Rule-making authority in ordinances and by laws. Powers, express and implied, with particular emphasis on licens ing and zoning. Contractual and tort liability of municipal corpora- tions. Casebook.: Stason, Cases on Municipal Corporations (2nd ed) . Textbook.: To be announced.
PRoPERTY. (5 Sem. Hrs.) This course deals with personal property and real property with the exception of the more complex aspects of Future Interests. It covers the following topics: problems in possession including types of posses sion, bailments and remedies based on possession; gifts of personal prop erty; bona fide purchases of personal property; the recording system of land transfers, covenants for title, title insurance and title registration; historical background of the land law, estates, landlord and tenant; the land law prior to the Statute of Uses, the Statute of Uses and its ef fects, elementary aspects of Future Interests; the Statute of Frauds; controlling the use of land by legislation and by covenants; easements and rights incident to ownership of hnd. Casebook.: Casner and Leach, Cases on Property (rev. ed). Textbook.: Brown, Personal Property; Moynihan, Preliminary Survey of the Law of Real Property.
PuBLIC UTILITIES. (2 Sem. Hrs.) Common law concepts of business affected with a public interest. Emergence of state and federal commission form of control. An an alysis of the Interstate Commerce Act, with emphasis on the shifting impact of judicial review on the rate-making process; methods of val uation and administrative control of the securities structure. Particu lar problems of integration under the Public Utility Holding Com pany Act. Casebook.: Robinson, Cases on Public Utilities (2nd ed) . Textbook.: To be announced. 40 BOSTON COLLEGE
REMEDIES. (4 Sem. Hrs.) The history and organization of the judicial system. Proceedings in an action at law. Forms of action; the pleadings; the validity and ef fect of judgments; jurisdiction over the person. Proceedings against property; proceedings in rem; attachment and garnishment. Trial and adjudication at law; trial by jury; non-suit; directed verdict; instruc tions to the jury; verdict; motions after verdict; default; judgment. Extraordinary legal remedies. The history of equity; development and classification of equity jurisdiction. Casebook: Scott and Simpson, Judicial Remedies; Keigwin, Common Law Pleading. Textbook: Scott, Fundamentals of Procedure in Actions at Law.
SALES. (3 Sem. Hrs.) The transfer of property interests under contracts of present sale and under contracts to sell; ascertained, unascertained and fungible goods; auction, bulk, cash, C. 0. D. and C. I. F. sales; estoppel and fraud; factor acts and bulk sales acts; sale on approval and sale on re turn transactions; risk of loss; performance of the contract; rights and remedies of buyers and sellers; warranties; negotiable documents of title; financing methods, conditional sales, trust receipts; the Statute of Frauds; the Uniform Sales Act and the Proposed Commercial Code. Casebook: Bogert and Britton, Cases on Sales (2nd ed) . Textbook: Void, Handbook on the Law of Sales.
SECURITY. (3 Sem. Hrs.) Mortgages: various theories of mortgages; essentials of a legal mort gage; recording; masked security transactions; doctrine of future ad vance; equitable mortgages; foreclosure, with particular reference to local statutes; incidents of foreclosure, receivership, marshalling; re demption; notes incident to interests of mortgagor and mortgagee; assignment and discharge of mortgages. Suretyship: the suretyship contract, capacity of parties, essentials; defences, concealment, fraud, duress, the Statute of Frauds; absence of legal duty on principal; sub sequent defences, discharge of principal, the Statute of Limitations, pay ment, extension of time, alteration of the risk; exoneration, indemnity, subrogation and contribution. Cast•book: Sturges, Cases on Credit Transactions (3rd ed).
TAXATION I. (3 Sem. Hrs.) A fundamental course in federal taxation. A study of source ma terials of federal taxation, such as legislative materials, the Internal Revenue Code, and Treasury Regulations. Tax procedure; the organi- LAW SCHOOL 41
zation of the Internal Revenue Bureau; and the function of federal courts in tax matters. Constitutional and interpretative questions aris ing from the federal estate, gift, and income tax. Problems in compu tation of estate, and income taxes are assigned to develop familiarity with federal tax forms and their use. Casebook: Griswold, Cases and Materials on Federal Taxation (2nd ed). T extbook: Prentice-Hall, Students' Tax Law Service.
TAXATION II. (3 Sem. Hrs.) An advanced course in federal taxation. Federal taxes as applied to the income of corporations, partnerships, and other forms of business associations. Tax problems incident to re-organization, receivership, bankruptcy. Applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, and court decisions thereon. Casebook: To be announced. Textbook: Mimeographed materials.
ToRTs. (6 Sem. Hrs.) Assault, battery, false imprisonment; the act and intent. Consent, public interests, defense of self and others, defense of possession and recaption, emergency privileges. Negligence, standard of care, proof; duty to act; causation; risk-result and means; risks to whom; termina tion of the risk. Duties of suppliers of chattels, manufacturers and contractors. Liability to a guest in an automobile. Duties of occupiers of land. Contributory fault. Liability without fault. Deceit, defama tion, malicious prosecution. Interference with advantageous relations. Casebook: Thurston and Seavey, Cases on Torts. Textbook: Prosser, Handbook on the Law of Torts.
TRADE REGULATION. (3 Sem. Hrs.) Contracts and combinations in restraint of trade at common law. The Sherman Act: construction of the statute, its application to loose combinations, trade associations, industrial mergers, labor activities and cartels. Enforcement: criminal and civil sanctions, the consent de cree, private suit, divorcement and dissolution. Specific practices as affected by the Miller, Tydings, Clayton and Robinson Patman Acts; price discrimination, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying agreements, patent pooling and restrictive licensing; trade marks and trade names. Relationship between federal and state regulation. Casebook: Handler, Cases and Materials on Trade Regulation. Textbook: To be announced. 42 BOSTON COLLEGE
WILLS AND TRUSTS. (5 Sem. Hrs.) Wills: testate and intestate transm1sS10n of property from one gen eration to another; execution of wills, testamentary capacity, fraud and undue influence, revocation, condition and mistake, lapsed and void legacies and devises, statutes of descent and distribution, probate of wills, administration, management and distribution of the estate. Trusts: the historical development of various types of trusts, differen tiation from other legal and equitable devices; creation and elements of the trust, the Statute of Wills and the Statute of Frauds as affecting the trust, the powers, duties and liabilities of the trustee; charitable trusts, resulting and constructive trusts. Casebook: Leach, Cases on Wills (2nd ed); Scott, Cases on Trusts (4th ed). Textbook: Atkinson, Wills and Administration; Bogert, Trusts (3rd ed).
WoRKMEN' s CoMPENSATION. (2 Sem. Hrs.) The common law background, the theory and scope of Workmen's Compensation Acts. An analysis of various particular statutes. Con stitutional limitations and relationship to federal legislation. Statutory concepts of accidents arising out of and in the course of employment; the employer-employee relationship; recovery of compensation, includ ing administrative procedure and judicial review thereof. Casebook: To be announced. Textbook: Mimeographed materials. LAW SCHOOL 43
DEGREES IN COURSE
1952- 1953
Tbe following recent graduates have been awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
As of June, 1952
Akey, Kenneth Paul Farrington, James Carver Alfieri, Mario Paul Finck, Ralph Ernest Allen, Everett Thomas, Jr. Fisher, Leonard Amabile, Frank Joseph Fuller, Clayton Neil Anastos, Charles Edward Gallagher, Edward Raymond Bannen, Thomas Augustus Galligan, William Charles Baril, Jean Elbert Glynn, Francis Barry, John Joseph, Jr. Goldstine, Abraham Alan Baxter, Joseph William Grady, John Vincent Beauchemin, Roger Armand Grant, Norman LaSalle Bellotti, Francis Xavier Guptill, Lawrence Waldo, Jr. Bellucci, Elio Christopher Henchey, William Henry, Jr. Blakeney, Robert Wing Hennessey, Joseph Leo Boyle, Francis Joseph Hennessey, William Francis Brannelly, John Michael Hennessy, Frank Joseph Breen, Joseph William Higgins, John Joseph Brunero, Stephen John Hill, Carlos Francis Buckley, Edward William, Jr. Hines, Peter Francis Burkhead, William Harris Hodapp, Joseph Francis Butler, John Joseph Hoenig, Matthew Michael Cassidy, Joan Hogan, John Benedict Chee, Hon Chung Hogan, William Edward (cum Chisholm, Daniel Christopher laude) Colbert, Charles Edmund Jones, Lewis E. Connors, John Edward Kelleher, John Clement, Jr. Conte, John Alan Kelley, Edgar Lee Corrigan, Thomas Hurley Kelley, William Joseph Crowley, Henry Patrick Kennedy, William Henry Cullinane, John Patrick Kickham, John Warren Curley, John Patrick, Jr. King, Joseph Carroll Cyr, Claude Lindley Kirby, Edward Paul Daly, John Joseph Kirby, Richard Farley Devine, Shane Kittredge, William Joseph Devlin, Albert Thomas Koschak, George Dinardo, Jerry Anthony Leahy, Thomas Michael Donahue, Joseph Paul, Jr. Lee, John Patrick Dooley, William Joseph Lemay, John Gerard Doran, Edward Michael, Jr. Litchfield, Mark Ferguson 44 BOSTON COLLEGE
Long, Jeremiah Michael Robinson, Robert Clifton Lowry, James Rudd Rosenberg, William Jack Lussier, Harvey Ernest Ross, James Francis McCarthy, William Joseph Ryan, Daniel Joseph McFarland, Philip Joseph Ryan, Richard Robert McGuire, John Kenney Schlosstein, John Paul McHugh, John Joseph Shea, Edward John Mcinerny, George Francis Sherlock, John Francis, Jr. McQuade, Joseph Leo Snee, Bernard Joseph Mazonakis, John Francis Stanford, Joseph Vincent Meagher, Francis Thomas Sullivan, John Edward Murphy, Jeremiah Francis, Jr. Sullivan, Roger Francis Murphy, John Francis, Jr. Sullivan, William John O'Malley, Austin Andrew Tierney, Albert Gerard, Jr. Pederzani, Paul Peter, Jr. Tramonti, John, Jr. Quigley, John Lawlor Turke, Joseph Gerard Quirk, James Peter Urie, Richard Caldwell Reynolds, Francis Constantine Valente, Silvio Thomas Ridge, Edward Joseph Wheeler, Frederick, Jr. Riley, Richard Meade White, Thomas Michael As of August, 19 52 Flynn, Christopher John, Jr.
As of January, 1953 Viger, Marcel Robert
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REGISTER OF STUDENTS
MoRNING DIVISION
First Year-Class of June, 19 55
Alvino, Albert Andrew ...... Lawrence Dooley, Francis Edward ...... Dorchester A.B., Merrimack College A. li., Boston College Archett~ John Daniel ...... Cranston, R . I . Doyle, Raymond J. W. B.S., rrovidence College Bridgeport, Conn. Autuori, Dominic Arthur B.S., Fairfield University Bridgeport, Conn. Dufiin, Thomas Martin ...... Jamaica Plain B.S., Fairfield University B.S., Boston College Barrett, Charles Flowrence...... Cambridge Faletra, Joseph Louis ...... Roslindale B.S., Boston College B.S., Boston College Barry, Robert Francis ...... Somerville Fanning, Stephen A., Jr. A.B., Boston College Providence, R. I. Battles, James· Joseph ...... Brighton A. B., Providence College A.B., Boston College FitzGerald, Robert Edwin ...... Quincy Berrigan.~. John Francis ...... Jamaica Plain A.B., Maryknoll Seminary A. B., l:loston College *Flaherty, Philip Francis ...... Dorchester Buchtman, William Frederick ...... Boston B. S., Boston College B.S.k Fairfield ' University Foley, Richard Albert ...... Bath, Me. Bycos y, Casmir Thomas Bowdoin College Terryville, Co nn. Forbes, William O'Malley .... Nashua, N ..H. B.S., University of Connecticut A.B., Loyola Colle![e (Canada) Byrne, Thomas P ..... West Hartford, Conn. Forcier, Arthur A., Jr... .. Pawtucket, R.I. B.S., Fairfield University B.S., Boston College Cahill, Charles Anthony ...... Chestnut Hill Foynes, Edward Nixon, Jr...... Wollaston RS., College of the Holy Cross A. B., Harvard University Callahan, James' F., Jr. .... North Billerica Gabriel, Robert Richard ...... _ ...... Northboro Boston College B.S., College of the Holy Cross Capasse, EdwardJoseph.... Westport, Conn. Gallagher, Robert Joseph ...... Weymouth B. S., Fairfield niversity A. B., Boston Coi!ege Cappelli,_ Charles E ...... Providence, R. I. Gallivan, Richard Gerard .... Jamaica Plain A. B., rrovidence College A.B., Boston University Capuano, Eugene Richard ...... Everett Germani, Vincent Michael ...... Attleboro A. B., Boston College A. B. Boston College "Carr, William James ...... Jamaica Plain Gill, Edward Patrick ...... Pr~vidence, R. I. A.B., Champlain College A. B., St. Bernard's Semmary Carty, John Patrick ...... Medford Gill, John Francis ...... Bridgeport, Conn. A. B., Merrimack College B.S., Fordham University Casey, Edward Francis ...... Attleboro Glennon, Robert Martin A. B., Providence College Manchester, N. H. Clancy, Robert Lawrence ...... Arlington Catholic University A.B., Tufts College St. Anselm's Colle![e Cody, Thomas · Gerald ...... Ho lyoke Gloster, Arthur L., Jr. A.B., College of the Holy Cross Torrington, Conn. Colangelo. Umberto ...... Providence, R. I. A. B. , Providence College · Providence College Hanlon, John Lawrence ...... Auburn, Me. *Comerford, Joseph Michael ...... Whitman A.B., American International C o lleg~ A. B., Providence College Healey, William David ...... Wakelleld *Connolly, William Tondorf ...... Arlington A.B., Harvard University B.S., Boston College Heavey, William Francis ...... Milton Cooney, John P ., III ...... Providence, R.I. B.S., Boston College B.S., College of the Holy Cross Hession, George Robert ... - ...... Dorchester Corbo, George Anthony, Jr ...... Needham B.S ., Boston College A. B., Boston College Horgan, Daniel Joseph ...... Lynn *Cribben, John Philip ...... Brockton A.B., Boston College A.B., Stonehill College *lkenaga, Roger Mitsuo Croke, Lawrence James ...... Roslindale Honolulu, Hawaii A. B., Boston College A. B., University of Hawaii *Crowley, Thomas Joseph ...... Dorchester Kalin'ski, Alexander ] ..... Manchester, N. H. St. Anselm's College A.B ., St. Anselm's College Davey, John Patrick ...... Roslindale *Laubner._ Philip Edward ...... Lynn A. B., Boston Collej(e A. B., uoston College DeGiacomo, James Richard ...... Roslindale *Leach, Charles Albert ...... West Roxbury B.S., Boston College B.S., Springfield College Delaney. Robert Dennis .. Trumbull, Conn. LeComte, Sylvio 0 ., Jr ...... New Bedford B. S., Fairfield University B.S., Boston College Devine, Joseph Martin ...... Malden Lombardi, Joseph Andrew ...... Randolph B.S., Boston Colle11e Boston College DiLorenzo, Gabriel Nicholas ...... Somerville Lynch, Joseph Paul ...... Milton A.B., Boston College Boston College • Leave of absence for military service. 46 BOSTON COLLEGE
McAuliffe, Donald Timothy...... Wakefield Picozzi, Paul Anthony ..Providence, R. I. B.S., Boston College A.B., Providence College McElhiney, Robert F ...... Cranston, R. I. Quinton, Joseph Gerard. ... Providence, R.I. A.B., Providence College A.B., Providence College McGarry, John Warren ...... Boston Richard, Lionel Joseph...... North Adams B.S., College of the Holy Cross A.B., Assumption College McGee, Frank James ...... Boston Richards, Robert J., Jr...... North Quincy B.S., Boston College B.S., Boston College McLaughlin, Thomas Leo.... Jamaica Plain Schwartz, Raymond E., Jr. A.B., Boston College Hamden, Conn. McNeil, William L ...... West Somerville B.S., Fairfield Unive~sity B.S., College of the Holy Cross Sequeira, Ay res August ....•...... Acushnet McNeill, George Edward ...... Somerville A.B., Providence College Boston University Shaw, Albert Vincent ....•...... Winthrop *Maher, John Aloysius, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. A. B., Providence College A.B., University of Notre Dame Smith, Matthew Thomas .... Littleton, N.C. Maynard, Richard C ..... Providence, R. I. A. B., Northeastern University A. B., .Maryknoll Seminary Spillane, Richard Walter ...... •..•....Belmont :Mazzone, Remo Vincent...... Cranston, R. I. B.S.. Boston College A. B., University of Notre Dame Spinellal. Peter...... •...... Providence, R. I. Merrigan, Francis Clement.... North Adams A.B., t'rovidence College A.B., St. Michael's College Sullivan, Daniel Austin ...... •.... Fall River Moriarty, JoseJlh Leo ...... Quincy A. B. Providence College B.S., Regis College (Colorado) Taft, James Linwood, Jr... .. Cranston, R.I. Mulhern, John Francis ...... Jamaica Plain B.S., Colle~e of the Holy Cross B.S., Boston College Tarpey, Dante! Francis ...... Jamaica Plain Mullin, Richard Peter ...... Dorchester A.B., St. Michael's College Boston College Thornton, Timothy Martin ...... Woburn Mulvey, Thomas Henry ...... Brighton B.S., Boston College B.S., Georgetown University Torphy, William A., Jr• ..••..••.... Fall River Murphy, Richard Joseph...... Winthrop B.S .. Boston College A.B., Providence College Trundy, Arthur Benson ...... Wareham *Neary, John Joseph ...... Bridgeport, Conn. Boston College B.S., Fairfield University Vignone, Anthony Michael ...... Franklin Nicewicz. Walter Ambrose ...... Clinton B.S., Boston College College Webb, Robert David ...... Reading B.S., Merrimack A.B., Merrimack College •Oates, Richard Joseph ...... Watertown Wells, Kenneth James ...... Belmont A. B., Boston College A. B., Boston College Olshan, Joseph Raymond ...... Brighton White, Kevin Hagan ...... Boston Boston College A.B ., Williams College Ouellette, Eugene George ...... Lowell Whitney, David Laurence ...... Melrose Oblate Scholasticate B.S., College of the Holy Cross Patrie, John Durkin ...... Providence, R. I. Woods, Richard Charles...... South Boston A. B., Providence College A.B., Boston University Petrarca, Louis A ...... West Warwick, R. I. Woods, Robert Philip ...... East Milton A.B., Providence, College Boston College Second Year Morning-Class of June, 1954 Abrams, Robert Thurman ...... Brookline Corcoran, James C., Jr.. ..\Vest Springfield A.B., Harvard University B.S., St. Michael's College Alexander, Hector James ...... Brighton Craig, Ellen ...... - •••Waltham A.B., Boston College Regis College . Barbeau, Andre Jean ...... Brighton Cunningham, Francis Xavier -··--··-Revere B.S., College of the Holy Cross B.S., Boston College Battles, Henry Joseph ...... Rutland, Vt. DePonte, Dominic A ..... New Haven, Conn. B.S., UniTersity of Vermont B.S., Fairfield University · Bouchard, Leo Paul ...... St. Albans, Vt. Desmond, George R., Jr...... Framingham A.B., St. Michael's College A. B., Boston College Breslin, Robert H., Jr. Desmond, William Ignatius .... Dorchester Gaspee Plateau, R. I. Boston Co liege A.B., Brown University *Dobson, William Thomas .... East Dedham Bussiere, Emile Roland Manchester, N. H . A.B., Harvard University St. Anselm's College Cahouet, Ralph Hubert, Jr...... Milton Farrell, Robert Lawrence ...... Charlestown A.B., Harvard University A. B., Boston College ...... Winthrop Fenton, John Edward, Jr...... Lawrence *Canavan.,~. John Aloysius A. B., College of the Holy Cross A.B., tloston College Roslindale Casey, John Martin ...... Wollaston Flynn, Thomas loseph ...... A.B., College of the Holy Cross B.S., College o the Holy Cross Clark, Gerard Francis ...... Dover, N. H . *Gracey, James Donald ...... Springfield University of New Hampshire A.B., University of Massachusetts Connelly, Roderick Michael, Jr...... Milton Grady, James Edward ...... Clinton A.B., Boston College The Tulane University of Louisiana Connolly, William Francis ...... Clinton Gray, George Benedict (Rev.) .... Dorchester Michigan State College A.B., M.A., Boston College • Leave of absence for military service. t..AW SCHOOl.. 47
Hagerty, William Joseph .... V'.'est Roxbury Moriarty, Cornelius J ., Jr...... Holyoke A. B., Boston College The Catholic University of America *Hatem, Victor Laur ence ...... Methuen O' Brien, John Henry ...... Arlington B.S .• Boston College B.S., B oston University Hickson, Lloyd ...... Brookline O' Brien, Margaret Ann ...... Arlington Northeastern University Emm Hurley, Walter a nuel College Joseph ...... West Roxbury O'Brien, William Joseph, Jr...... Arlington A.B., Boston College A.B., T u fts Co!fege Jennings, William Edward, Jamaica Plain O'Neil, Dona ld William ...... Springfield B.S., Bo ston College Boston Colle K a ne, Irving Edward ...... Lynn ge A. B., Boston College Payne, Richard S ...... Providence, R . I. Kelley, Charles Daniel ...... Malden Providence College B.S., Boston Co llege Printon, Thomas A ., Jr.... . So. Orange, N. J , *Kennedy, John Edward, Jr...... Milford B.S., Boston College A. B., Boston Colleg_e Raffer ty, Thomas J o seph ...... Boston Kobayashi, Edward N ..... Honolulu, Hawaii A.B., Harvard University A .B ., University of Hawaii Redden, James A., J r...... Springfield Lajoie, Lucien Francois ...... Brookline Boston Uni vers ity Bates Co llege Regan, Edward J ...... E . Greenwich, R . I. Geoq~ e Washington University B.S., Rhode I slan d S tate College McAultffe, Rosemary ...... New Bedford Ringros;_, Be rna rd J ..... New Britain, Co nn. A.B ., R~i s Co llege B.S., r a irfield U niversity McCarty, ohn Fra ncis ...... Do rchester Roach, Edward F rancis ...... Elmwood Boston allege A.D ., Boston College McCawley , Pa ul Joseph ...... New Bedford Ro mano, Robert Golden ...... Somerville Boston Colle ~t e A.B ., Boston College McDona ld. William James ...... Brookline Ro ussell, Thomas Richard ...... Lawrence A.B .. College of the Holy C ross St. M ic hael's Co llege MacQueeney , Vincent Patrick ...... M i lton Sacco, Rudolph Augustine ...... Pittsfield A. B., Boston C ol lege B. S .• Boston Co lleg-e Ma lone, Ro bert L a than, Waterbury , Conn. Sedensky, Stephen ] ..... Bridgepo rt, Co nn. B .S .. St. Michael's College B.S .• Fairfie ld Univers ity Marcotte, Albert .To seph ...... Lowell A.B ., Boston College Varon e, Anthony T ...... Brid geport, Co nn. Meehan . .Tames Franc is ...... Worcest er B .S., Fa irfield Univers ity B.S .. College of the H oly C ross Walla ce, Robert Thomas ...... Roxbury Meyer, .Tonas J., IT I ...... Bridgeport, Conn. B.S .. Ros ton Co llege B S., Fa irFeld U ni versity W a lsh. Jo hn J a mes ...... P o rtland, Me. Meyer. Willia m Bernard ...... Boston St . Michael's College OcPaul U niversity \¥ helton.,_ J o hn Edward ...... Quincy Northwestern University A. B., l:S oston College
Third Year Morning-Class of June, 1953 Anderson, Adolph N ., Jr., Providence, R.I. Ford-' Paul Theodore ...... Lawrence A.R., Brown U niversity B.:::. .. U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Averbach. Gertnde Mary ...... Cambridge Gallagher, J a mes Ro bert...... Framingham B.S .. Boston College B.S., U niversity of Massachusetts Bigham, Edward Thomas ...... Waltham Garrahan, John P a trick ...... Framingham Northt>astern University A.B., Boston College Blais, Henry J., III ...... Pawtucket, R.I. Giordano, Dominic Robert ...... Boston A . B., College of the Holy Cross B.S., Fordham University Bolger, G~rge Thomas ...... Fall River Giso, Frances Theodora ...... Boston A. B., Providence College B. S. , Roston University Campion, Robert C ...... Framingham Gomez, Jorge L ...... Braintree Highlands Boston University A . B., University of Puerto Rico Corrigan, John Joseph ...... Chicopee Falls Gorton, William Edward.... Corning, N . Y . A . B., American International College Trinity College (Conn.) Cwalinski, Alexander Aloysius...... Boston University of Bridgeport B.S., College of the Holy Cross Hague, Charles .Tames ...... Fall River D' Agostine. Julian James ...... Brighton B.S., Boston Co llege Boston Coflege Harrington, James J., Jr...... Springfield Davern, Timothy James ...... Somerville A. B., University of Massachusetts B.S., Boston College Hyatt, Wilbur Abu ...... Lawrence Decker, George Thurlow ...... Greene, N . Y. Northeastern University Syracuse University Hyla nd, William C. , Jr...... Arlington Donovan, James Henry ...... East Boston A. B., Boston College Boston College Infelise, Frank, Jr ...... Lynn Donovan, Raymond Francis ...... Fitchburg No rtheastern. University A.B., St. Anselm's College Kelly, Donald Richard ...... Fall River Dunn, Daniel Francis ...... Wellesley Hills A .B., Boston College A . B., Harvard University King, Margaret Mary ...... Cambridge Ferris. Clement Anthony ...... Pittsfield A . B., Marymount College (N. Y .) A.B., St. Michael's College M.A., Boston College Flaherty. {ohn Joseph ...... Portland, Me. Lillie, Margaret E ...... Bennington, Vt. A.B., Co le1e of the Holy Cross A. B., University of Vennont • Leave of ab1enee for military 1erviee. 48 BOSTON COLLEGE
McDonough, James Martin ...... Dorchester Sandini, Louis Ralph ...... Marlboro Boston College B.S., College of the Holy Cross Malone, Robert Paul ...... Arlington Scannell, Gerald J., Jr...... Springfield Harvard University A. B., American International College Tufts College Schubert, Arthur C ...... Clinton, Conn. Monesi, Dorothy Corrine ...... Springfield Champlain College .I A.B., University of Massachusetts University of Connecticut Moriarty, Paul Francis.... North Abington Slater, John Joseph, Jr...... Chelsea Boston College B.S., Boston College Murphy,, John Lawrence, Jr...... Arlington *Sleeper, Donald Neilson, Jr...... Medford B.S., .tloston College Northeastern University Murphy, Maurice J ., Jr...... Dover, N.H. Sullivan, Donald William ...... Methuen B.S., College of the Holy Cross B.S., College of the Holy Cross Sullivan, William J..,_ Jr., Providence, R. I. O'Connor, Francis Patrick ...... Belmont A. B., Providence 1-ollege A.B., College of the Holy Cross Sweeney, Paul Francis ...... Quincy O'Connor, Joseph Norman ...... Webster A.B., Boston College A.B., College of the Holy Cross Sylvester, Joseph Henry ...... Orange, Conn. O' Donnell, John Francis ...... Dorchester Northeastern University A.B., Boston College Taylor, John Nicholas ...... Somerville O'Neil, Joseph Francis ...... Dedham A.B., Boston College B.S., College of the Holy Cross Tergliafera, Raymond A ...E. Longmeadow Quinn, Thomas M ., Jr..... South Dartmouth American International College A.B., College of tfie Holy Cross Tyner, John Joseph, Jr...... Boston Regan, William A ...... Providence, R. I. A.B., Boston College A.B., Providence College Viger, Marcel Robert ...... Biddeford, Me. Rodrigues, Frank, Jr...... Fall River A.B., St. Anselm's College Manhattan College Walsh, James Gregory, Jr..... Jamaica Plain St. Anselm's College A.B., Boston Colle_g-e Ryan, William Bradley ...... Belmont Zumwalt, William james ...... Concord A.B., Harvard University A.B., Boston University
First Year Evening-Class of June, 19 56 Adamo, Angelo Antonio .. Providence, R. I. DeLosh..._ Leonard Francis ...... Roslindale Ph.B., Brown University B.S., .tloston College *Ahern, Daniel Joseph, Jr...... W. Roxbury Donoghue, Robert Joseph ...... Worcester B.S ., Boston College A.B., College of the Holy Cross • Aniello, Alfio Ubaldo .... Providence, R. I. Donovan, Kevin Charles ...... Lawrence A.B., Providence College A.B., St. Anselm's College Aragona, Daniel James ...... Medford Dowd, Edmund Francis ...... Methuen B.S., University of Miami (Florida) A.B., College of the Holy Cross Asselin, Francis Xavier, Jr...... Canton *Dwyer, John Dennis ...... Medford B ..S., Providence College A.B., liarvard University Baranick, Wilfred John ...... Milton Earley, Francis Charles ...... Quincy Boston College B.S., Boston College Barton, Justin Clark ...... Dorchester Fandel William Joseph ...... Everett Boston College B.S., Boston College BrennanJ,Arthur Albert ...... Milton Farrell, John William, Jr...... Medford A.B. m.A., Boston College Boston College Brow~ Francis Joseph ...... Watertown Farrey, Thomas B.1 Jr...... Worcester St. .rrancis College (Pennsylvania) B.S., State Teacners College at Wor· Byrne, Raymond Joseph ...... Maynard cester Georgetown University Ford,_ Daniel Francis ...... Brookline Carmody, William Clark ...... Boston A ..tl., Boston College B.S. Clark University Gallucci... Joseph E ...... Providence, R. I. Carvalho, Manuel Alves De A .B., Yrovidence College Lisbon, Portugal Geller, Robert John ...... Dorchester University of Lisbon (Portugal) B.S., Boston University Charles, Frank Vincent ...... Melrose Giroux, Eugene Xavier ...... Arlington A.B., Northeastern University A.B., Boston Colle&e Clancy, William Hamilton ...... Holliston Grandfield! Robert Francis ...... Medway B.S., Boston College Tufts Co lege Coleman, John Paul ...... Abington Haynes, James M., Jr...... West Roxbury Boston College A.B., University of Notre Dame *Conley, Martin Peter ...... Revere *Hill, Roger W . UJr...... Northport, N. Y. A.B., St. Michael's College B.S., Boston niversity Cote.._ Richard Albert ...... Providence, R . I. Hoar, Francis Henry ...... Stoneham A.tl. Brown University The Alabama Polytechnic Institute Crane, George Boland ...... Northampton Jamieson, Donald Gilbert ...... Medford A.B., St. Anselm's College B.S., Niagara University Crowley, Charles Mortimer ...... Andover Jenks, Chester W ., Jr... Manchester, N. H. B.S., Boston College A.B., Harvard University Cunningham, Mary Rita ...... Somerville Johnson~,...Frank James .... Pawtucket, R. I. Northeastern University A.B., rrovidence College Daly, Richard Edward ...... Salem Joy, Thomas Joseph ...... Somerville B.S., Boston College Boston Universtty • Leave of abaenee for military nrviee. LAW SCHOOL 49
*Kadel, Robert ...... Mamaroneck, N. Y. O~Donnell, .John Stephen, Jr ...... Lowell B.S., Mass. Institute oi Technology B.S., Boston College Kanaly, Thomas Henry ...... Melrose O'Riordan, John Francis ...... Melrose B.S., Georgetown University A . B., Boston Colleg_e Kane, John William ...... Arlington O'Sullivan, Bernard P ...... South Boston A.B ., Harvard University A.B., Boston College M.A., Boston University Pendergast, James F ..... Koch, William J ...... East Meadow, N. Y. Kansas City, Mo. A.B., B.S., Georgetown University Ph.L., St. Louis University Prebluda, Warren LaBonte, Ph1lip Edgar ...... Milton Sidney ...... Fall River Boston College A.B., Brown UniverSity M .B.A., University LaBonty.._ Jerome T ...... Providence, R. I. of Pennsylvania A.B ., rrovidence Pres to n, Roger Frank ...... Braintree College Boston College Linardos, George Elias ...... Ra ndolph A. B., Trinity College (Connecticut) Ross, Roy Francis ...... Brighton McCabe._ George Francis ...... Salem A.B., M.A., Boston College B.S., .JjOSton College St. Gelais, Henry Charles ...... Salem McCarthy, James Joseph, Jr ...... Newton B.S., Boston University Boston College Santulli, Anthony Lawrence ...... Natick McDonald, Helen Gertrude ...... Scituate A.B., L a Salle College A.B., Regis College Scanlon, Cornelius Joseph ...... Dorchester McGachie, Harry Leo ...... Jamaica Plain A.B., Boston College B.S., Clark University Ed.M., Sta te Teachers College at Boston 1\icKeon, Francis Xavier ...... Worcester Shanaha n, William Francis .... Swampscott B.S., Boston College B.S., B oston U niver sity MacLellan, Neil F., Jr ...... Somerville Shea, J o hn Henry, Jr...... Roxbury A.B., Boston College Boston College Malone, Joseph J a mes .. New Haven, Conn. *Sherer, Robert Jerome ...... Roxbury University of Connecticut B.S., M .A., Boston College Merette, Norman Joseph .. Edgewood, R . I. *Sinibaldi, Raymond Conrad .... East Boston B.S., Providence College Northeastern University Miller, Theron F ...... Michigan City, Ind. Sullivan, William Robe rt ...... Malden A.B ., University of Michigan B.E .E., The Catholic University of Monahan, Michael Joseph ...... Chelsea America Boston College Tennyson, Moniz, Frank Thomas .... Barrington, R. I. Raymond A ..... Pawtucket, R . I. A.B., Providence College A .B., Providence College Mooney, Joseph Paul ...... Revere Waszkiewicz, Chester S ...... Worc ester A.B., Suffolk University B.S., State Teachers College at Wor· O'Brien._ John Thomas ...... Bangor, Me. cester B.S., .JjOston College M.A., Boston University O ' Connell, Vincent Joseph ...... Peabody Wilson, Robert L ...... Providence, R. I. A.B., Boston College B .S ., Georgetown University
Second Year Evening-Class of June, 195 5 Athens, James Basile ...... Arlington Degan, William Francis ...... Quincy B . S., Boston University B.S., Boston College M.B.S., Harvard University DiNublia, John ...... Mattapan Barrett, Raymond Stephen ...... Watertown B.S., Boston University Boston College Dolbec, Robert Paul ...... Quincy *Bennett, Richard James ...... Somerville A.B ., Boston College Northeastern Donovan, George Patrick ...... East Boston Brennan, Henry Thomas ...... Charlestown B.S., Boston College Boston College Ducey, Richard Vincent ...... Belmont Brosnahan, John Joseph ...... Dorchester B.S., Boston University B.S., f!oston Colleg:~ Emerson, Joseph Alphonsus ...... Boston Cappada1s, George. N1c~olas ...... Boston A.B., Mount Saint Mary's College (Md.) B .S., Boston Un1vers1ty . Carter, Francis Ayers ...... Lonsdale, R. 1. Fagan, Lawrence ]ospeh .... North Abmgton Ed.B., Ed.M ., R. 1. College of Education Fallon, George W1lham, Jr ...... Needham *Cawley, Clifford John .... Providence, R. I. B.S ., Boston Colleg_e . A.B., Providence College M . Ed., Bosto.n _Umvers1ty . Chute, Elizabeth Anne .... Providence, R. I. Fraser1 Leo Wilham, J~...... Wmchester Providence College Northeastern Umvers1ty . Claus, Ambrose Joseph ...... Needham Harvey, Joseph Manmng ...... Wmthrop B. S. Boston College A . B., Boston College Costelio, Joseph Paul ...... Needham Higg:ins, John Harrington ...... Belmont A.B., Dartmouth College A.B., St. Michael's College . Cross, David Eglinton ...... Boston Jayes, Charles H_enry. ···-··········· Roslindale B.S., Duquesne University B.S., Boston Umvers1ty Cuddy, John Francis ...... Dorchester Kendrigan, Grace Mary ...... Dedham B.S., College of the Holy Cross Northeastern University . *Cummings, Robert Eugene ...... Waltham King Paul Henry ...... Cambndge B. S., Boston University B . S'., Boston Colle_ge . Curran, John Joseph ...... Dorchester Kinton, John Franc1s ...... Wmchester Boston College Northeastern University • Leave of absence for military service. 50 BOSTON COLLEGE
Lane, Francis Joseph ...... Cambridge O'Connor, John Luke ...... Dorchester Northeastern University B.S., Boston College Lezer, Leon Robert ...... Boston Peters, Robert Mark ...... Attleboro B.S., M .D., University of Vermont B.S., Fordham University Libby, Darald Raymond ...... Medford Philbin, Richard Mower ...... Lowell B.S., Northeastern University A.B., University of New Hampshire Lieberman, Herman ...... Boston Pinkerton, Robert J. B. S., The College of the City of New Oklahoma City, Okla. York University of Oklahoma City M.A ., Columbia University *Pohlmeyer, Alfred ...... Malden McKeown, Paul F ...... Providence, R. I. B. S., Southwestern University Ph.B ., Providence College M.B.A., University of Texas ...... Sudbury *McLean~.Carden Ralph ...... Exeter, N. H. Publicover, Francis Gerald A . B., Yale University B.S., Boston College MacLellan, Stephen Joseph ...... Bost.on Ranaghan, Francis Xavier .... Somerville St. Joseph's College (N. J.) A.B ., Boston College ...... Quincy McNulty, William Joseph .. Stanick, John Edward ...... Auburndale Boston University Dorchester B.S., Boston University Hl"ll Mooney, John Joseph ...... Sterling, Alvan ...... Chestnut Northeastern University Natick Boston University MurphybCharles Francis ...... University of Miami (Fla.) B . S., niversity of Notre Dame ... Newton R. I. Sullivanh David Clifford ...... Murphy, Neale Donegan .. Edgewood, A.B., 1..-ollege of the Holy Cross Bryant College I. O'Brien.,__John Joseph ...... Boston Toegemann, Alfred C ...... Cranston, R. A. B., noston College A . B., Brown University O' Callaghan, John Austin ...... Roslindale Tyrrell, Joseph Patrick ...... Brookline Northeastern University B.S., Boston University
Third Year Evening--Class of June, 1954
Barry, William David ...... Medford O'Donnell, Edward Urban .... South Boston Boston University A.B., B oston College Brier, Philip Fredric ...... Needham O' Malley, Francis Thomas ...... Clinton B. S., The Ohio State University A.B ., College of the Holy Cross Camoscio, Cosmo ...... Brighton O'Ma lley, William Augustine .. Dorchester B.S., Boston University A.B., Fordham University Collins, Atwell Grant ...... Wollaston Petrone, Nicholas Louis, Jr ...... Avon Massachusetts Maritime Academy Boston College Crowleyb Alfred Leo ...... Lowell Reed, Barry Clement ...... Quincy College B.S ., College of the Holy Cross A.B., artmouth H. Curley, John Edward ...... Boston Ross, Clifford J ...... Manchester, N. B.S., Georgetown University B.S., Boston College Dee, Joseph Francis, Jr...... Medford Ryan, Gerard John ...... Boston A. B., Boston College B.S., Northeastern University Ermilio, Francis Gennaro ...... Worcester Ryan, John Francis ...... Brighton B . S., College of the Holy Cross A.B., Boston College Fulton, Paul ...... Bedford Samet, Theodore Sidney ...... Somerville A.B., Harvard University B.S., Boston University Gral;:, Robert Wesley ...... Boston Sarjeant, John Anthony ...... Hyde Park B . ::; ., M.B.A ., B oston University A.B., Boston College Griffin, Daniel James ...... Lexington Scali, Nicholas Vincent ...... Belmont A. B., Boston College B.S., Boston College Hamilton, John Earl ...... Stoneham Seems, Euifene George ...... Beverly Boston College B . S., Untversity of Connecticut Horn, Everett Byron ...... Newton Sullivan, John Edward ...... Dedham A.B., !Iarvard University Bowdoin College MacCormack, Robert Austin ...... Boston Sullivan, Joseph Paul ...... Dorchester Boston University Boston College Maguire, Walter Francis ...... Mattapan Testa, John Francis ...... Watertown Boston College Northeastern University Mahone);:, John James ...... Newton Watt, George Leo ...... Boston A. B., 1..-ollege of the Holy Cross Northeastern University Manley, Albert Leo ...... South Braintree White, John Philip, Jr...... Jamaica Plain B.S., Boston University A . B., Harvard University Murphy, James McDuff ...... Quincy Zaccone,. Rose Catherine ...... Charlestown A. B., M . C.S., Dartmouth College B .S ., M.B .A ., Bos ton University Nolan, Joseph Richard ...... Brighton Zeuli, Frank Dennis ...... East Boston B. S., Boston College Boston College · • Leave of absence for military service. LAW SCHOOL 51
Fourth Year Evening-Class of June, 1953 Adams, John Henry ...... Belmont McDonough, Augustine B.S., Harvard University J. Manchester, N. H. Barr, Donald William .... Providence, R. I, St. Anselm's College A.B., Dartmouth College McDonough, Louis William ...... Boston Brennan, Charles William ...... Wayland A.B., U n iversity of Boston College New Hampshire McGrath, George Francis ...... Roslin dale Cass, Richard John ...... Dorchester Boston University Boston College Morrissey, James Francis ...... Medford Crowley_., James F., Jr ...... Weymouth Boston College B.S., t.reorgetoy;n University Norris, Lawrence Crowley"' John Norbert .... Providence, R. I. Geoffroy ...... Marblehead B.S., tlryant College B.S ., University of Illinois Davis, Theodore Elwood ...... Methuen Riley, Joseph Valentine ...... Lawrence Boston University B.S., State Teachers College at Fitch Massachusetts State College burg Donelan, Edward Martin ...... Hyde Park Ronan, Marie Tracy ...... Salem Boston College A.B., Wellesley College Duffy, Robert Emmett ...... Winthrop M.Ed., Boston University B.S., University of New Hampshire Rowe, Robert Joseph, Jr..... Newton Centre Green, Harold H., Jr...... Marblehead Boston College B.S., Purdue University St. Onge,Joseph Arthur ...... Bedford Kelleher, Daniel Jefferson ...... Brockton Boston niversity Boston College Suchecki, Stanislaw R...... Dorchester Kelleher, Dorothy Ellen ...... Arlington A.B., Harvard University Boston College Thornton, J o hn William ...... Boston Kelley, Charles A ...... Pawtucket, R. I. A. B., Loras College B.S., Providence College Vancouyghen, August C . .... Ri versicle, R. I. Leitner, Frank Nicholas ...... Chestnut Hill B.S., Rhode Island B. S., State College Lehigh University Walsh, David William, Jr...... Somerville M . B.A. Harvard University Boston College Lembo, Edward Ralph ...... Framingham Whittemore, William C ...... Chestnut Hill A.B., Boston College B.S., Brown University McDermott, Charles Edmund .... Topsfield Williams, Joseph Ward ...... Dorchester A.B., College of the Holy Cross Boston College
AUDITORS
Bibilos, Marie ...... Brighton Mo lloy, Martin Joseph, Jr...... Dorchester B. S., Boston University B.S., Boston College Breslin, John Edward ...... Dorchester Morgan, Alexander LL.B., D., III Suffolk University West Roxbury Cordingly, William E...... Lancaster, Wis. B.S., Boston College B. S., University of Wisconsin O' Connell, Kathleen Mary ...... Arlington Devine, Paul Anthony ...... Roslindale A. B., Regis Colle_ge LL.B., Boston College M.A., Radcliffe College Jarvis, Joseph James ...... Cambridge Ryan, John William ...... Boston Boston School of Accounting A.B., Boston College Lally, Joseph Patrick ...... Dorchester Sargent, G eorge Lee ...... Dover Boston University University of Virginia • Leave of absence for military service. 52 BOSTON COLLEGE
STATISTICAL SUMMARY Previous Education
Students with two or more academic degrees ------22 Students with at least one academic degree ------342 Students with no academic degree ------110 Special Students ------29
Military Service Morning Evening Auditors Total 256 Veterans ------91 158 7 196 Non-veterans ------··-- 145 47 4
Academic Distribution First Second Third Fourth Total Morning Division 110 66 60 236 Evening Division 81 55 38 31 205 Auditors 11 Total ______452 LAW SCHOOL
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES REPRESENTED
1952- 1953
Alabama P o lytechnic Institute, The ...... Mount Saint Mary's College (Maryland) 1 American International College ...... 4 New Hampshire, University of ...... 4 Assumption College ...... New York, The College of the City of.. Bates College ...... 1 Ni agara University ...... Boston College ...... 158 Nor theastern University ...... 21 Boston School of Accounting ...... 1 Northwestern University ...... 1 Boston University ...... 38 Notre Da me, University of ...... 4 Bowdoin College ...... 2 Obla te Scholasticate ...... 1 Bridgeport, University of ...... 1 Ohio State University, The ...... Brown University ...... 7 Oklahoma City, U niversity of ...... Bryant College ...... 2 Pennsylvania, University of ...... 1 Catholic University of America, The...... 3 Providence College ...... 34 Champlain College ...... 2 Puerto Rico, University of ...... Clark University ...... 2 Purdue Universit y ...... Columbia University ...... R a dcliffe College ...... Connecticut, University of ...... 4 Regis College ...... 4 Dartmouth College ...... 4 Regis College (Colorado) ...... 1 DePaul University ...... 1 Rhode Island College of Education ...... Duquesne University ...... Rhode Island State College ...... 2 Emmanuel College ...... 1 Saint Anselm's College ...... 10 Fairfield University ...... 13 Saint Bernard's Seminary ...... 1 Fordham University ...... 4 Saint Francis College (Pennsylvania).... 1 Georgetown University ...... 7 Saint Joseph's College (New J e rsey) ...... George Washington U niversity ...... Saint Louis University ...... 1 Harvard University ...... 19 Saint Michael's College ...... 10 Hawaii, University of ...... 2 Southwestern University ...... Holy Cross, College of the ...... 32 Springfield College ...... Illinois, University of ...... State Teachers College at Boston ...... LaSalle College ...... State Teachers College at Fitchburg .. .. Lehigh University ...... State Teachers College at Worcester .... 2 Lisbon, University of (Portugal) ...... Stonehill College ...... 1 Loras College ...... Suffolk University ...... 2 Loyola College (Canada) ...... Syracuse U ni versi ty ...... Manhattan College ...... 1 Texas, University of ...... Maryknoll Seminary ...... 2 Trinity College (Connecticut) ...... 2 Marymount College (New York) ...... 1 Tufts College ...... 4 Mass. Institute of Technology ...... 1 Tulane University of Louisiana, The.. .. Massachusetts Maritime Academy ...... 1 U . S. Merchant Marine Academy ...... Massachusetts State College ...... Vermont, University of ...... 3 Massachusetts, University of ...... 4 Virginia, University of ...... Merrimack College ...... 4 Wellesley College ...... Miami, University of (Florida) ...... 2 Williams College ...... Michigan State College ...... 1 Wiscons·in, University of ...... Michigan, University of ...... Yale University .. :...... TOTAL INSTITUTIONS ...... 88 54 BOSTON COLLEGE
THE RED MASS
The traditional ceremony popularly called the "Red Mass" is the Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit celebrated at the beginning of the judicial year, and attended by members of the bench and bar of all re ligious faiths, for the purpose of invoking the blessing and guidance of Almighty God in the administration of justice. The popular name of the Red Mass is probably derived from the predominating color which sur rounded the ancient ceremony. Centuries ago the attending justices wore judicial robes of bright scarlet; and, because the Mass is that of the Holy Spirit, the vestments worn by the officers of the Mass have always been red. Moreover, the prayer proper to this Mass beseeches the aid of the Holy Spirit, traditionally symbolized by the flaming fire of Divine Wisdom.
The precise origin of the Red Mass is obscured by its very antiquity. The tradition goes back many centuries in the Old World, particularly in Rome, Paris, and London. From time immemorial this beautiful cere mony has officially opened the judicial year of the Sacred Roman Rota. During the reign of Louis IX, Saint Louis of France, La Sainte Chappelle was officially dedicated as the proper setting for the service. This mag nificent edifice, erected more than seven hundred years ago, was used but once a year and then for the Red Mass. The custom in England began in the early Middle Ages. Even during the hazards of World War II, Eng lish judges and lawyers of all religious faiths annually attended the Red Mass in Westminster Cathedral to seek the assistance of Almighty God in the discharge of the sacred responsibilities of their profession.
IN NEw ENGLAND
The·Boston College Law School was honored and privileged to intro duce this ancient and beautiful ceremony to New England on Saturday, October 4, 1941. Fifteen hundred distinguished members of the bench and bar, of all religious faiths, filled the Church of the Immaculate Con ception for the occasion. The tradition of the Red Mass, thus carried from the Old World to the New, from remote antiquity to the twentieth century, is continued annually under the sponsorship of His Excellency, Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston.
The Thirteenth Annual Red Mass in New England will be celebrated, during the Diamond Jubilee Convention of the American Bar Association, in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston on Sunday, August 23, 1953. A solemn procession of guests of honor will precede the ceremony, as follows: LAW SCHOOL 55
THE MARSHAL THE AcoLYTES AND CoLoRs His ExcELLENcY, THE GovERNOR OF THE CoMMONWEALTH THE UNITED STATES SENATORS FROM MASSACHUSETTS THE CHIEF JusTicE AND THE AssociATE JusTicEs OF THE SuPREME juDICIAL CouRT oF MAsSACHUSETTs THE CHIEF JusTicE oF THE SuPREME CouRT oF jAPAN THE CHIEF JusTicE oF RHODE IsLAND THE juDGES oF THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CouRT OF APPEALS THE JuDGES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT CouRTS THE CHIEF JusTicE AND THE AssociATE JusTICES oF THE SuPERIOR CouRT OF MASSACHUSETTS THE juDGEs oF THE PROBATE AND LAND CouRTS oF MAssACHUSETTS THE jUSTICES OF THE DISTRICT CoURTS OF MASSACHUSETTS THE UNITED STATES CoMMISSIONERS His HoNoR, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY oF BosTON His HoNoR, THE MAYOR oF THE CITY oF NEwToN THE UNITED STATES CoNGRESSMEN FROM MASSACHUSETTS THE LIEUTENANT GovERNOR OF THE CoMMONWEALTH THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE TREASURER oF THE CoMMONWEALTH THE AUDITOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL oF THE CoMMONWEALTH AND STAFF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR MASSACHUSETTS AND STAFF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS oF MAssACHUSETTs THE CoRPORATION CouNSEL oF THE CITY oF BosToN AND STAFF THE REPRESENTATIVES oF THE BAR AssociATIONS THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LAW FACULTIES THE BosToN CoLLEGE LAw FACULTY THE SENIOR CLASS oF THE BosToN CoLLEGE LAw ScHooL THE MEMBERS OF THE DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL THE RIGHT REVEREND MoNSIGNORI THE OFFICERS OF THE MAss THE 0FFICIALIS 01'' THE DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL AND AuxiLIARY BisHoP OF BosToN
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL RED MASS
The Fourteenth Annual Red Mass in New England will be celebrated in the beautiful Church of St. Ignatius, Chestnut Hill, on Saturday, Oc tober 2, 1954, For the formation of the procession, the guests of honor will assemble in St. Thomas More Hall, the new building of the Boston Colle,ge Law School. The Red Mass will be followed by a Luncheon to the Judiciary, in the dining room of the Law School, tendered by the Senior Class of the Law School. The Luncheon will be followed by an official inspection of the new building. 56 BOSTON COLLEGE
THE AMERICAN JESUIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Colleges and Universities in the United States conducted by the Society of Je sus
~· Boston College ------·Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Canisius College ------Buffalo, New York College of the Holy Cross ------·W or cester, Massachusetts *Creighton University ------Omaha, Nebraska Fairfield University ------·------Fairfield, Connecticut *Fordham University ------New York City, New York *Georgetown University ______Washington, District of Columbia *Gonzaga University ------·Spokane, W a shington John Carroll University ------Cleveland, Ohio Le Moyne College ------·Syracuse, New York Loyola College ------·------·Baltimore, Maryland *Loyola University ·------Chicago, Illinois *Loyola University ------·Los Angeles, California *Loyola University ------New Orleans, Louisiana *Marquette University ------Milwaukee; Wisconsin Regis College ------.Denver, Colorado Rockhurst College ------·Kansas City, Missouri Saint Joseph's College ------.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Saint Peter's College ------Jersey City, New Jersey Seattle University ------Seattle, Washington Spring Hill College ------Spring Hill, Alabama *University of Detroit ------Detroit, Michigan *University of Saint Louis ------Saint Louis, Missouri *University of San Francisco ------·San Francisco, California *University of Santa Clara ------Santa Clara, California University of Scranton ------Scranton, Pennsylvania Woodstock College ------Woodstock, Maryland Xavier University ------Cincinnati, Ohio
*The thirteen universities marked above with an asterisk conduct schools of law. BOSTON COLLEGE DIRECTORY 1952- 1953
Joseph R. N. Maxwell, S.J. President
THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES University Heights, Chestnut Hill FRANCIS 0. CoRCORAN, S.J., Dean THE GRADUATE SCHOOL University Heights, Chestnut Hill PAUL A. FITZGERALD, S.J., Dean THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION University Heights, Chestnut Hill W. SEAVEY JoYCE, S.J., Dean THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION University Heights, Chestnut Hill CHARLEs F. DoNOVAN, S.J., Dean THE LAW SCHOOL 18 Tremont Street, Boston WILLIAM J. KENEALY, S.J., Dean THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INTOWN 126 Newbury Street, Boston JoHN W. RYAN, S.J., Dean THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 126 Newbury Street, Boston DoROTHY L. BooK, Dean THE SCHOOL OF NURSING 126 Newbury Street, Boston RITA P. KELLEHER, Dean THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS IN LENOX Shadowbrook, Lenox PATRICK A. SuLLIVAN, S.J., Dean THE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY Concord Road, Weston PAUL J. LucEY, S.J., Dean THE SUMMER SESSION University Heights, Chestnut Hill THOMAS J. GRACE, S.J., Director THE INSTITUTE OF ADULT EDUCATION 126 Newbury Street, Boston JoHN W. RYAN, S.J., Director