Question: William Howe Crane graduated from a law school that was founded in what year?
Context: The Law School at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was a department of Princeton University from 1847 until 1852.  It began instruction in 1847 as a modest effort consisting of three professors: Joseph Coerten Hornblower, Richard Stockton Field, and James S. Green.  Only seven students obtained a law degree before the school closed in 1852.  The short-lived experiment was the furthest the university got in a recurring ambition, marked by varying levels of effort, to establish a law school.  Previously, in the 1820s, an attempt was made to organize teaching in law, but this plan ended with the death of the designated professor.  In 1935, the university once again formed appreciable plans for the start of a law school but was unable to secure a faculty.  The desire remained after these unsuccessful efforts but aspirations were relegated to thirsting words rather than material preparations.  In 1974, then president of Princeton, William G. Bowen, selected a committee to investigate and advise on the achievability of a law school.  The committee recommended plans for a law school be deferred after citing high construction costs.  Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth are the only Ivy League schools to lack a law school, and all Princeton graduates who are lawyers will have received their legal training elsewhere. Herman Oliphant (1884–1939) was a professor of law.  He started at the University of Chicago, going to Columbia University in 1922.  He was originally from Forest, Indiana, the grandson of William Oliphant, an early pioneer of that area.  Herman grew up on the family farm.  In 1903, he graduated from Forest High School and attended Marion College.  He returned home in 1905 to marry his childhood sweetheart, Julia Sims.  In 1907, he graduated from Marion College and then went on to obtain degrees from Indiana University (1909) and his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1914.  Shortly after his arrival at Columbia University, he wrote to the university's president, Nicholas Murray Butler, outlining some plans he had for reorganizing the curriculum of the law school.  Essentially, his goal was to transform the school into a research center, placing particular emphasis on the interaction of the law and other social sciences.  Under the administration of Huger Jervey, who became dean of the law school in 1924, Oliphant's plans were used as the basis for a reorganization of the law school. Robert E. Scott (born 25 February 1944 in India) is Law Professor at Columbia Law School.  Scott graduated from Oberlin College ("cum laude") and received his law degree in 1968 from William and Mary Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the "William and Mary Law Review", with the highest academic average in his class.  (Scott met his wife, Elizabeth "Buffie" Scott, also a Columbia Law Professor, while at Oberlin College.)  Scott earned an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973, after which he joined the law faculty at William & Mary. Albany Law School is a private, independent, American Bar Association-accredited law school founded in 1851 in Albany, New York making it the oldest law school in New York.  It has an affiliation agreement with University at Albany that includes shared programs.  The school is located near New York's highest court, federal courts, the executive branch and the state legislature. Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.  Established in 1824, Yale Law offers the J.D., LL.M. , J.S.D., M.S.L., and Ph.D. degrees in law.  The school's small size and prestige make its admissions process the most selective of any law school in the United States.  Whereas less than 1 in 10 applicants are offered admission, roughly 8 in 10 admits ultimately matriculate, which marks the best yield rate among the top U.S. law schools.  Yale Law has been ranked the number one law school in the country by "U.S. News and World Report" every year since the magazine began publishing law school rankings.  Widely considered to be the preeminent law school in the nation, it is one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. The University of Colorado Law School is one of the professional graduate schools within the University of Colorado System.  It is a public law school, with more than 500 students attending and working toward a Juris Doctor or Master of Studies in Law.  The Wolf Law Building is located in Boulder, Colorado, and is sited on the south side of the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.  The law school houses the William A. Wise Law Library, which is a regional archive for federal government materials and is open to the public.  United States Supreme Court Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 1922. "Widener University Delaware Law School" (also known as Delaware Law School) and "Widener University Commonwealth Law School" (also known as Widener Law Commonwealth) are Widener University's two, ABA-accredited law schools, which had been (until July 1, 2015) the two campuses of Widener University School of Law.  The latter, unified school had been founded in 1971 as "The Delaware Law School" and operated on one of Widener's campuses, in Wilmington, Delaware.  In 1989, the law school expanded to another Widener campus, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and became the Widener University School of Law.  On July 1, 2015, the two campuses were separated into two distinct law schools that operate independently of each other, but remain part of the university.  Each law school has its own dean. William Warner Van Alstyne is an American lawyer, law professor, and constitutional law scholar.  Prior to retiring in 2012, he held the named position of Lee Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School.  He was the Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School for more than 30 years and has taught at Chicago Law School; Stanford Law School; University of California, Berkeley, Law School, University of California, Los Angeles, Law School; Michigan Law School, among many others. William Howe Crane (1854–1926) was an American lawyer.  Born to Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane and Mary Helen Peck Crane, he was the fourth-oldest of nine surviving children—Mary Helen, George Peck, Jonathan Townley, William Howe, Agnes Elizabeth, Edmund Byran, Wilbur Fiske, Luther and Stephen.  In 1880 he graduated from Albany Law School, after which he established a practice in Port Jervis, New York.  Crane was a prominent member of the community; he served as district clerk of the board of education and treasurer of the town's waterworks.  One year he served as special judge for Orange County, which earned him the nickname "Judge" Crane.  He was also the author of one book, "A Scientific Currency" (1910). Founded in 1887, the University at Buffalo School of Law (also known as UB Law, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, or SUNY Buffalo Law School) is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo.  It is the State University of New York (SUNY) system's only law school. " U.S. News & World Report" ranks the University at Buffalo School of Law 106th in the nation for 2018, a drop of six places from the previous year, and the first time the law school has dropped out of the second tier.  However, many lesser known sites rank the Law School much higher.  The University at Buffalo School of Law is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York, which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State.  This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking, where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers, a measure which examines "twelve indicators of professional achievement".  Also, Malcolm Gladwell, in the "New Yorker" Magazine, devised a formula that ranks UB within the top 50 whereas Reuters ranks UB Law as 48th overall in the nation.
Answer: 1851