Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-06
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
EXERCISES AT HARVARD.
Judge Holmes Addresses
The Lawyers.
MORE SHOCKS OF EARTHQUAKE.
Charleston Gets Another
Big Scare.
ECHOES FROM THE ELECTION
The Labor Party Building
Castles.
ECHOES FROM THE ELECTION

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Judge oliver wendell Holmes Enter
taIns the Law school Association
with a Brilliant Grafton.
/ CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 5.-The authorities have
seen fit to call this the first day of the 250th
anniversary celebration, though the exercises
have nothing to do with the college proper,
being simply the first meeting of the Harvard
Law School assoc alton. At noon to-day the
members of the association met at Austin
Hall for their business meeting. The follow
ing amendments were made to the constitu-
ton: The admission of present members of
the law school of one years standing to mem
bership; the addition of section providing
for honorary members. The following Off
GERS were elected for the year: President,
| Hon. James c. Carter of New York; vice
| presidents, Hon. Andrew Allison of Tennes-
see, Hon. G. S. Bradley of Rhode
Island, Hon. J. B. Eustis of
| Louisiana, Hon. w. NJ. Evarts of
New York, Hon. NJ. T. Force of Ohio, Hon.
R. B. Hayes of Ohio, Hon. Ogden Hoffman
| of California, Hon. A. R. Lawton of Georgia,
| Hon. R. T. Lincoln of Illinois, Hon. Arthur
w. Machen of Maryland, Hon. Marcus Nor
| ton of Massachusetts, Hon. J. II. Overall of
| Missouri, Hon. J. A. Peters of Maine, Hon.
W. Preston of Kentucky, Hon. Alfred Rus
sell of Michigan, Hon. H. G. Simple of Ala
bama, Hon. jeremiah Smith of New Hamp-
shirecouncil for four years, Hon. w Barker
of P1ttsfeld, j. L. Thorndike of Boston,
William Schofeld of Cambridge; for three
years, Hon. P. A. Collins of Boston, Fred P.
Fish of Cambridge, Theodore Tyndall of Bos-
ton; for two years, Hon. F. P. Goulding of
Worcester, Samuel B. Clarke of New York: for
one year, Hon. A. L. Huntington of Salem,
Fred c. S. Bartlett of New Bedford, Sher-
man Hoar of Waltham; treasurer, w.
II. Wade of Boston; secretary,
Louis D. Brandies of Boston.
At the close of the business meeting the
procession marched to Sanders Theater
where the president, Hon. James c. Carter,
acknowledged his election in brief speech
and introduced Oliver Wendell Holmes, ir.,
who delivered the address. His Grafton was
devoted to exposition of the use and
meaning of law schools and the method of |
instruction at the Harvard schools. He said: |
GA law school does not undertake to teach |
success. The main part of intellectual edu
cation is not the acquisition of facts, but the |
learning how to make facts live. Education |
other than self education is the shaping of |
mems interests and aims The business of a |
law school is not simply to teach law and |
make lawyers, but to teach law in grand |
manner and to make great lawyers. Our |
country needs such teaching much. The |
passion for equality has passed beyond the |
political or social sphere. 1t is attacking |
the lines of nature which establish orders and |
degrees among the souls OF men. This ID
wrong. Modesty and reverence are no less
virtues of freedom than the democratic feel
ing which will submit neither to arrogance
nor to servility. To inculcate those virtues |
know of no teachers SO powerful and persua-
sive as the little army of specialists. Where
they are men learn that hustle and push are
not the equals of quiet genius and Sc
need their help, or who are en-
lighted by their teaching, to obedience
and respect They furnish in the intellectual
world perfect type of the union of demo-
cracy with discipline. They bow to no one
who seeks to impose his authority by foreign
aid They hold that science like courage is
never beyond the necessity of proof, but
must always be ready to prove itself against
all challenges. But to one who has shown |
himself master they pay the proved rever-
ence of men who know what valiant combat
means and who reserve the right of combat
against their leader even if he should seem
to waver in the service of truth, their only
queen. Of this army the lawyers are not the
least important corps, for all law |
yers are specialists; not in the
narrow sense, but specialists |
because they have undertaken to master a
special branch of human knowledge. The
aim of law school should be, the aim of
the Harvard Law school has been, not to
make men smart, but to make them wise in
their calling; to staff them road which
will lead to the abode of the Master. A law |
school should be at once the workshop and
the nursery of specialists in the sense which
1 have explained. 1t should obtain for
teachers men in each generation who
are producing the best work of that
generation. Teaching should not
stop, but should foster production.
The enthusiasm of the lecture room" fthe
contagious interest of companionship"
should make the students partners in their
teachers work. The ferment of genius in
its creative moment is quickly impaired. If
a man is great he makes others believe in his
greatness He makes them incapable of
mean ideas. His pupils will accept no sub
stitute for realities, but at the same time
they learn that the only coin with which
realities can be bought is life. Judge Holmes
then proceeded to show now the Harvard
Law school had pursued this ideal; detailed
the progress made in methods of instruction
and reviewed the work of its most famous
instructors and graduates.