The images in this collection are collected from several series of historical photos throughout Osgoode Digital Commons.
If you would like to view the images in their original galleries please follow the links below:
Osgoode@125 Historical Photo ExhibitOsgoode Catalysts
Remembrance Day
Graduating Class Composites
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1942 - Long-Distance Education
The Law Society of Upper Canada forms the Special Committee on Wartime Educational Services. As a result, Osgoode Hall becomes one of the sponsors of an informal Commonwealth law school in overseas prison camps. Captain J.R. Turnbull (first-year student), from Windsor, and W.L. McGregor (second-year student), write their law exams as a prisoner-of-war, proving that barring death, no one can escape finals.
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1939 - Worst Exams Ever
The Law Society Committee on Legal Education institutes an elaborate test of how effectively students are learning from their articling experience. With practising lawyers acting as volunteer oral examiners, all graduating students are grilled in a single weekend on their mastery of details of actual practice. The Legal and Literary Society in 1938 or 1939.
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1938 - Shiny and New
The Benchers agree to provide new lecture rooms, library space and an exam hall. Finally, robing facilities are created for both men and women. There are numerous renovations to Convocation Hall that turn it into a lecture theatre that is also available as a “great hall” and gathering place. A kitchen and pantry are added to permit the opening of an adjacent dining hall.
