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1956 - Twist and Shout
Osgoode students host dances throughout the school year in Convocation Hall and annual At-Homes at the Royal York Hotel.
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1957 - A Whole New World
Queen’s University and the University of Ottawa open their own law faculties, closely followed by Western University (Western Law School). The Law Society and universities agree that candidates to the Bar should have at least two years of undergraduate education followed by a three-year full-time LLB, one year of articling and six months of the Bar Admission Course. Here are some of the athletic teams instituted by Dean Smalley-Baker.
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1957 - The Good Old Hockey Game
Professor Allan Leal coaches the Osgoode Hall hockey team throughout the decade. A young Roy McMurtry and future Professor R.J. Gray can be seen in this photo, one in from the right in the second row and bottom right, respectively. The Osgoode Hall Co-champions, Central Ontario Hockey League, 1956-1957.
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1958 - Blast from the Past
To accommodate the increased class sizes, a new wing of the Law School opens at the rear of the Osgoode Hall. It is full almost as soon as it opens. This is the newly renovated student cafeteria.
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1958 - Building Tradition
Herbert Allan Borden Leal is appointed Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. The first issue of the Osgoode Hall Law School Journal is published. This year also marks the end of the concurrent/part-time system (a combination of lectures and office work) in favor of a full-time law program. Finally, an official coat of arms is created, representing the Law School’s foundations. Leonard Braithwaite graduates. As President of the Legal and Literary Society, here is his mid-term report in the Spring 1958 issue of the Obiter Dicta, pg. 7.
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1959 - Hello Again
York University opens. Ironically, it is first located in Falconer Hall, directly across from the University of Toronto’s Law School.
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1965 - A New Home
The Benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada unanimously approve in principle the affiliation of the Law School with York University. York agrees to construct a new building and library and take the name ‘Osgoode Hall Law School.’ Here, the founding president of York University, Murray Ross, looks at a model of the new Osgoode, 1967.
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1966 - The Right to Counsel
The Community Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) is established. Under the supervision of practising lawyers, Osgoode students provide legal services to members of the community who would otherwise be unable to afford representation. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the Canadian social security system would grow to include community housing projects and legal aid. These run-down homes were on Bleecker Street and are contrasted with new apartment blocks, 1963.
Though Osgoode Hall Law School's history dates back to the 1820s, it was first permanently established in 1889 and the first class was held in October. Osgoode's 125th anniversary in the 2014-2015 academic year is an occasion for telling more of our stories to more communities. Enjoy these historical vignettes!
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