University of Pennsylvania: the proceedings at the dedication of the new building of the Department of law, February 21st and 22nd, 1900 . method of instruction is the only method possiblewhere the duty of the teacher ends when he has impartedinformation ; but where the primary object is, not only tosee that the student obtains information, but to train thestudent so that he may apply his knowledge, then thedidactic lecture, while a possible means of accomplishingthis result, is one which the majority of modern teachersof law, as well as of other branches of knowledge, believethey have found t
University of Pennsylvania: the proceedings at the dedication of the new building of the Department of law, February 21st and 22nd, 1900 . method of instruction is the only method possiblewhere the duty of the teacher ends when he has impartedinformation ; but where the primary object is, not only tosee that the student obtains information, but to train thestudent so that he may apply his knowledge, then thedidactic lecture, while a possible means of accomplishingthis result, is one which the majority of modern teachersof law, as well as of other branches of knowledge, believethey have found to be radically defective. The first per-son connected with the Law School to discard the lecturesystem of instruction was Mr. A. Sydney Biddle. Hismethod, which he used in the subject of Torts, was todirect the students to the principal cases dealing with thelegal question which he desired to discuss in class. Theclass hour was then devoted to a discussion between theProfessor and students of the principles involved in thecases, with which all, at the time of the hour, were Mr. Biddles death prevented him from. History of the Department of Law. 245 1890 with about eighteen hours of instruction per week;while at the time of entering the new building there wereseventeen professors and instructors offering fifty-twohours of instruction per week; thirty-eight hours beingrequired for a degree. From the necessity of tr?;[ng the student as wellas of informing him on the law, came ultimately anotherchange, which has only taken place in the last few years,but is perhaps destined to do more than any single thingto revolutionize the school. As long as all that wasrequired of a professor was general information on legalsubjects, any able and well-informed lawyer who was fondof the work could give satisfaction. But the momenttraining by the teacher, as well as information, becamenecessary, that moment the law professor must notonly know the law, but be an experienced
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