Office of the Registrar

Historical note on course catalogs:

The original course catalogs were simply called ‘Announcement’. These documents provided background and history of the Hartford College of Law, a calendar for the academic year, details about the course offerings, classes, and times. A list of faculty, members of the college board and names of students by year/class were included. Information on admissions, requirements, the library, and housing was also provided.

Classes were taught in the evenings from 7:00 – 9:30 pm, five nights a week. The faculty was made up of men who had earned degrees at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and other law schools; some were practitioners in Hartford. Women were admitted the year the law school opened ‘under the same conditions as men’ (1922 Announcement, p. 6). Tuition for the year was $100 which could be paid in quarterly installments of $12.50.

By 1935, the College had sufficient demand for day classes which began in the 1935-1936 academic year. Students would attend 6 days a week; classes were 50 minutes. The Night Division for a time required 5 years of study for completion, during the 1960s, before reverting back to 4 years in 1970.

Beginning in the 1960s, Announcements were renamed Catalog. Later the publication became Bulletins and course descriptions were no longer included. In the 2000s, these bulletins were styled similar to brochures as likely most of the course information was by then online. Catalogs from 1942 and on are available in RG 03.01 Office of the Registrar.