New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-14
P0srGRADUArE STUDIES At YALE.

sCHooIc-A LAW LIBRARY OF SEVEN THOUSAND
VoLUMEs-sPEcIAL FEATURES OF THE CoURsE-
A VARIETY OF LECTURES AND STUDIES
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBuNE.l
NEw-HAvEN, Conn, Jan. 21.-This Is be-
coming the place TO which men who are students nut
OF pupsge turn for the opportunities OF Forward
ing their favorite pursuits. There are now gathered
1000 men. filing all places in the student ranks
from the yro at classics and science 10 the man who -
making study his life work; and Just at this time they
hard at work SO though they make no stir IN the
place. and fill streets with movement ana HE per
haps much genuine exertion and as much genuine
performance lie behind their quiet doors and windows
as behind the busting Sstore fronts OF any thousand
business Of the town. The variety OF work that
done in the intellectual workshops OF NewHaven wouh
astonish some OF our own citizens We get INTO INC
habit OF thinking that in the College there Is the sne
routine year after year. forgetting that every year secs
more and more of the graduates of this and other nst
tutions settle here for from to five years. pursuing
original self-prOmpted study and investigation. TINS
system OF graduate study is the feature that hoids
out the promise of greatest prosperity TO Yale Lawyers
in full practice cergymen OF years experience pn OIL
clans and teachers whose schooling days are loDg pas
with the younger OF recent classes are engaged III
their course. covering in their studies all branches OF
learning sanscrt aud the philosophy OF linguistics
under the wel-known whitney, history under froi
Wheeler poetica philosophy. higher Jurisprudence, ana
economies under the venerable WOolsey and Prof sum-
ner English phiologg and literature with Prof Lous-
berry, and all the higher departments OF science under
the direction of the professors IN the Sneueu
ali these going together plan that makes the
student rather a coworker with the professor than
learner OF mere lessons II is the nearest possible APP
proach 10 independent and original investigation
The only department of the University that is not
actively at work is the that s perhaps the most
active OF all during its term-the Law School This
school sort of nine days wonder to NewHaven peo-
% dcf O them
They knew of course that they had law school here
among Them but that was about all. do not believe
out OF hundred could have told where It's rooms
what done there. But now 1t is the pride
all those who take interest In the growth OF our
Institutions Its classes are largo its attendance has
regularity that the compulsory system of the academic
surpass and Its exercises are of
standard that becomes the university Of which IT Is
branch II IN the hands of four Of the practcng
lawyers OF the city, who form the Examining Committee
Of the Ncw-Hayen County Bar. Their aim is TO make n
thoroughly grounded lawyer, a practitioner,
yet not TO let the student lose sgn OF the necessity
knowing how courts do business and how an office Is
odncted No law school could have better facilities for
THIS last WORK. for the student 10 reach his ectureroom
| must paes the doors of the Common Pleas ana
Superior Courts, ana the requires that he snail
always pass but often enter those doors, rather
than those OF the school, and observe the law IN s
actual operations. His study-room is the best law
library with exception, in the State and second 10
none In New-Engidnd out OF Boston. For convenience
OF arrangement and comfort OF fittings t has no equal
| among the law libraries L have There are two
rooms, large aud the other smaller, facing the
Green" The large Is devoted TO purely profess
sional works. Here complete sets of all American
English reports and most of the Irish reports-the
set be completed and good selection of text
| books not yet fully completed. The smaller room is
occupied with general jurisprudence. history, political
works and legal history and biography The selection
of m fha
faculty OF the school, The best editions in almost
all cases chosen the English reports for instance being
mostly the original editions and not the reprints. Tnis
liz the working library Bar and the advantages OBJ
tanned from familiarity with il Ia student days need not
be enumerated to of any practice. 1t mas been
carefully cataOgue1. and numbers about 1900 volumes.
The catalogue fills two large lcdgcrlike volumes, and
has been prepared with references and In the
| fullest manner as 10 make 1t complete manual TO
the library. Among the books some that bibo
| graphical pr.z - and from the fly leaves might bc
gathered insignfoant collection of autographs,
| including those OF Aaron Burr Chancellor Kent,
of the Washington family, and good mauy other
notables. American and English.
Tie of instruction 10 this school has two fea-
lures that believe not found. AZ least not In any
such degree in the curriculum Of any other law school
IN the country mean the courses of special lectures
and the privileges of the postgraduate in his
tory, philosophy, and political ana economic science
Rotations OF lectures on International Law by
ex-President Woolsey, q course English ConstItu-
toua Law and History from Prof Wayland, and one on
Roman Law from Prof. Baldwin. These given every
year ExPresdent WOOlsey lectures not those dev
cred TO the aeademca classes hut written expressly
for this school, and specially adapted to supplement
other law studies. They noticeable being
pied largely with recent developments Of the law OF
tons They in fact, the very latest studies of this
able specialist in his own department. As to Prof Way
lands lectures they the result OF personal obcrv
alton and Of acquaintance with public and public
events IN England during the last twenty years quite
much as Of research and study OF documents Few Amer
cans perhaps American instructors have had adj
mrable facilities for obtaining thorough experience of
the working machinery well az OF the principles Of the
English Constitution Prof. Wayand They attract
auditors from tho profession generally. The
Roman law is also and takes the place of those de-
lvercd 10 past years by the late Prof Hadley. They
deal more with the influence the civil law upon mod
ern Jurisprudence than did those, though Prof hadeys
little work ia used freely textbook. Other
are on Insurance Law by Charles T. McCurdy Ii. D.,
on Ecclesiastical Law by DR.. Leonard Bacon, on Fo-
rensc Composition by Prof HOppD, Medical Juris-
prudence by DR.. Francis Bacon, Forensic Elocuou
10y Prof Bailey, and Patent Law by Frederick NJ.
Belts of NewYork City, Prof. Robinson has class in
logic in addition TO his regular instruction. These
courses required studies, and evary years exami-
nation papers touch upon them.
The privileges of the postgraduate course so far at
least as consists in lectures and general
class Instruction. also OPEN free TO all the students
OF the school, These include lectures from Profs Sum-
ner and Wheeler, Gen. f. A. Walker the political
history Of United States, President Porter
President WOOlscy. and being constantly enlarged
year year. the other advantages ana capacities of
the University increase. one Of the College
rs a good, rOomy, central lecturehall. where such
courses be carried on without interfering with
deIgraduate work. As Wal be Inferred, from such
Improvement IN the school has come large increase Of
students. They now number upward OF nfty with ad-
4fas.