The University Gets a Law School — and a Drill Hall With a Running Track
The regents, meeting at Tacoma, voted to create a law department and to advertise for bids on a gymnasium and drill hall costing no more than $6,650, complete with company rooms and shower baths for the cadets.
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The regents of the state university, at a meeting at Tacoma yesterday, finally decided to establish a law college and to erect a gymnasium and drill hall on the new site. Those present were Chancellor James R. —— and Regents Frank Allyn, of Tacoma; John P. Gowey, of Olympia; David Kellogg, George H. Preston and W. V. Wood, of this city.
The report of the committee of the Bar Association, appointed to co-operate with the regents and consider the advisability of starting a law department, was received and the board agreed to profit by the advice therein given. The several members of the committee wrote separate letters, in which they strongly indorsed the project, but recommended that the regents avoid haste, and that before they choose a dean they correspond with the officials of other schools as to the best plan of organization; also that they exercise great care in selecting a man of the first rank in the legal profession as dean. A resolution was adopted establishing the law department, but the matter of selecting a dean will be deferred until the beginning of next year. A resolution was also passed thanking the committee of the Bar Association for the report submitted.
The president and secretary were authorized to advertise for bids for the construction of a gymnasium and drill hall building, not to exceed $6,650 in cost, according to plans now on file with the board. The drill hall will have a floor space of 60x100 feet and the floor space of the gymnasium will be 4,400 feet. Around the gallery of the drill hall will be constructed a running track, while opening out from the sides of the hall will be four company rooms, shower baths and other conveniences for use of the cadets and other students.
“They strongly indorsed the project, but recommended that the regents avoid haste, and that before they choose a dean they correspond with the officials of other schools as to the best plan of organization.”
Two institutions founded in a single afternoon: the University of Washington's law school, which would train generations of the state's judges and legislators, and a drill hall for military cadets that has long since vanished from campus. The Bar Association's caution — don't hire a dean in a hurry, get a lawyer of the first rank — is a hiring debate every law school still has.
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