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mean power and influence. Great
riches excite the envy of the overworked SUI
ferinQ toiler for bread and some become clam
orous for blood and rapine. Now, how will
be affected? The speaker elaborat-
ed on this point, his eliminating thoughts
being that through all phases and political
changes wrought by the rule of the majority
respect for law and order would in a free
land like this rise above and control tumult
and disorder. The majority chafe at seeing
Legislatures bribed and great corporations
petted and assisted to wrench still more from
the public. Must not the laws be such
as will command respect? Must
not purity be dominant in our
legislative halls? Must not the lower
be helped to rise higher, the employee to
become an employer? Must not the giving
of unjust power to corporations be uprooteda
Must not there be tribunals to decide in
controversies between the employers end the
employed? These will in some cases aggra-
vate, but will they not in time become indis-
pensable? Does not labor make mistakes in
debating to an employer whom he shall or
shall not employ, or in debating to work
work? Is not this a violation
of the law of personal libertya But shall
not all steps be taken to elevate the sons of
toll in his normal condition. Are we doing
our duty? They see the vast piliug up of
wealth on every side and feel their want
strives to protect itself by means wise and
unwise. Yet the road of America
is toward equality. The stars In
their courses fight for it. Some
hope to retain the ascendancy of the few by
the stoppage of immigration. But, said the
speaker, Americans must stand where the
fathers of the republic stood-this land must
ever be open to the oppressed, the unfortu-
nate and the stranger. The speaker elo
quently brought out the point. Proceeding,
he enlarged upon the thought that this de
mocracy cannot exist upon the basis OF y
rightful and just equality of all men, and
all corners should have the right OF
suffrage as soon as qualified to vote
intelligeutly. The party of labor has
temporary bad elements such as disclosed
by the acts of anarchists and socialists in
Chicago but these are temporary hindrances,
and law will triumph. The peroration of the
speaker was exceptionally fine. He eloquent
ly urged that the hope of the wisest as to
the future of this democracy was that under
the rule of the majority education, and high
er education at that, would become open to
all, that the laws would be SO founded on
right as to command universal respect and
loyalty, that the bench and bar and
legislatures would command reverence
and respect through their purity and a wise
and Just administration of the laws; and that
he intelligence of the people would be so
nigh and clear that religious teaching would
be universally taught as the wisest safeguard
and bulwark of national prosperity. The
speaker was vigorously and enthusiastically
applauded.
Following, President Cyrus Northrop an
nounced that the committee had awarded
thu Townsend prize to Mr.. Thatcher. APP
plause greeted the announcement. The toll
lowing award of prizes was then announced
and the exercises closed with prayer and the
benediction by ex President Woolsey:
PRIZES AWARDED IN YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1886.
Townsend prize, $780, for pronouncing the best
grafton at graduation, Sherman Day Thacher B.A.-
New Haven
Committee of award-President Cyrus Northrop,
Minneapolis, Mimi; Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
city.
Jewell prize, $50, for the best examination at
graduation, Henry Tweedy Shelton, Jr, b. A.
O. s. Seymour prize. S6O to that member of the
graduating elias. who has made the greatest i'm
provement in scholarship during both years of his
course, John Mexican, jr., Providence, R. I:
Belts prize $50 to the member of the Junior class
receiving the highest marks at his annual examin-
ven.
HoNoRs-sENIoR CLASS.
Degree of LIB magma cum laude Henry Tweedy
Shelton, jr Bridgeport degree of LII B. cum laude,
Louis Lawrence Barnum, Thompsonville; Lucius
HOLLYWOOD, B.A., New haven; Sherman Day Thach-
Junior class-Honorable mention for excellence
at the annual examination. Leonard Mayhew
Daggett, A., New Haven; John Harrison, b A,
Pritchett School Institute. Glasgow, Mo-: Overton
LAFAYETTE Hughes B A, Pritchett School Institute
Glasgow Mo-; James Benjamin Keogh, B.A.;
Chicago, Ill; Otis Strong, la, Auburn, N. Y.
THE LAW SCHOOL RECEPTION.
The Law school reception last evening was
very brilliant affair Judge and Mrs. Way
land received. Among those present were:
Hon. Wayne MacVesgh, Judge Holmes, of
Massachusetts,; Judge Strong, of the Supreme
court; professors of the Law school, Prof.
Hoppin, President Cyrus Northrop, Mr.. and
Mrs E. 7. Mersick, Judge L. E. Munson.
DR.. Russell, DR.. Carmalt, Rev: DR.. Smyth
Rev. DR.. Todd, Prof. Bailey: Rev. Mr..
BIakeslee, Rev. Mr.. Butricks, Mr.. Charles
Fabrique, Prof Foster, Mrs. DR.. Murray,
Mr. E C. Beecher, Mr.. Justus S. Hotchkiss,
Mrs Whitney, Miss Spullock of Rome, Geor-
gia, who is visiting with Mrs. Fabrique; John
H. North, Mrs. Southworth and daughters
of this city, Miss Dennison of
Chester, Ct; Mr.. and Mrs. 1:
H. Damn and Miss Alling, of
Miss Cady's school: Miss Mary Gay Robin
son of Guilford, a correspondent of the New
York Observer; Attorney cleveland, Mrs.
J. B. cleveland of Oxford, Miss Jocelyn,
Miss Alice R. Jordan and about 200 others.
The catering was by Mrs. Radcliffe.