New-York tribune., 1886-05-28
Young EfUYERS LISrEy T0 ADTICE.
JUDGE VAN WORST AT TIE COMMENC MENr OF
THE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

JUDGE VAN WORST AT THE COMMENC MENr OF
THE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
The Academy of Music was well filed last
evening the commencement exercises OF the Law De-
partrcn: Of The University o, tho City OF New York. The
friends OF the young lawyers present in large
numbers and sisn1ed their approval OF all that
said aud done by frequent applause aud numerous
tributes OF 70 ara in the shape OF bouquets Among
others on the stage Edwarls Pierrepont Roger A
Pryor. Dr. William Ormsto1. General Wager swaync.
Elliott +. shepard Judge Van Brunt. Ill sm s. Opdyke,
Charles Butler Professor I. F. Russell and Robert
sche and other members OF the faculty and council
The Rev. Dr. Henry ". M4cCrAcken vIce-chancollor
presided In the prize awards 500 gwen to
Edward Louis Mooney for the best oral examination.
while for the best written examination Hugo Reichart
received 500. These prizes were presented To the
successful students with an address by William
Allen Butler, the chairman OF the Law Committee OF the
Council The degree OF IL Il. conferred upon
twenty-five members OF the graduating class by Dr.
MscCracken. introduced 10 the audience as the
torot the evening judge Hooper G. Van Worst HIS
the young men on the responsibilities OF their new voc
Alter sIudpg to the competition lawyers would have
meet from the recent act or the Legislature ainit-
ting Practise law In this Sa,e anh saying that
young lady highly accomplished had already
warned them ~ danger. that OF stealing verdict
from sympanetic jnry lie quoted Dudley Warner as
proof that ladies' couId keep their clents' secrets
WOmen are tue natural repositories OF secrets, and
there Is nut one wel.keft secret III tne worn. mua.
they adop'ed the profession with couraseons deirrm
nation for hard study. he cited Lori
Bacon's maxim flaws the ancnor
OF the State" that the quality OF
ts law. Indicated OF the that
the CHEST civilization lnsues the most enle etenei and
lust Laws: that vne has salt by one THAT II he
could make the songs he cared not who made The laws
Of a nation the Declaration or Independence aud the
Constitution were better than " Hal Columbia aud
Yankee Doodle" ami LincOln'e Emancipation Proc
better than "John Browns body mouldrr-
ing grave. bat his soul marching on Aris
tOe said. That tho knowledge OF the the pru-
cipa and most periec! part Of ethics and Macsntosh
has added, that ;he laws OF Englani had been
chiefly formed out Of the simple principles of
natural justice. out OF long series Of Judicial decIsion
lie defended equity from the criticism of Selirn 200
years ago. that IL was regulated by he ChA ncelOrs
conscience. which In point OF certainty. ike
latiug IL bY the SIZE Of the ChAnc-llOrs foot" and
showed that equity longer arbitrary. admin
isiered the principles of II ,riw Kent and
that Bentham'- sne-r Of f" Judgc-niade law no
longer applicable; that the lawyers themselves were
responsible for great part of the unwritlen law attrb
uted To judges.
Edward l. Mooney delivered the valedictory, speak
ing urst Tue protection Of Onr civil liberties by the
National Constitution from state INVASION" The