The Press., 1890-07-10
CThe University Magazine March, 1890 CHAUNCEY B. RIPLEY. LII. D.

The subject of this sketch has been an efficient worker in colleges and universi- ties, continuously, for quarter of cen- tury, and mainly in the institutions with which he was connected as a student, from which he graduated, and from which he has received his scholastic degrees. Dur. ing this period he has been an examiner of candidates for degrees in the law depart ment of the University of the City of New York, and more than five hundred lawyers have passed their final examinations for degrees and admission to practice before committees of which he was a member, as chairman or otherwise. Mir. Ripley grad uated from the law department of the Uni versity of the City of New York, ill 1865, with the degree of IL. B., and was the valedictorian. of his class. He was for sev- eral years president of the alumni associa- tion of the law department of that univers- ity, is now chairman of the executive con- mittee, and has been associated in his postgraduate work with such alumni and friends of the university as Dr. Charles Butler, Dr. Howard Crosby, William AL len Butler, the late Hon. Aaron J. Van- derpoeI, Hon. Elihu Root, John Taylor Johnston, and Judge Willard Bartlett.
 Chauncey B. Ripley was born in South Coventry, Conn.,, May 14, 1885, at the Ripley, Hill homestead, is the son of Chauncey Ripley, born at the same place, educated at Yale College, who was the son of Jeremiah Ripley, an officer in the Ameri. can army during the revolutionary war, and afterwards county judge, from whom the homestead descended and takes its name He prepared for college at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Hart ford county. He spent two years in the University of Rochester, where he came ill contact with such scholars and educa. tors as Dr. Martin B. Anderson and Prof. Asahel o. Kendrick. He accepted a call to the chair of mathematics in Flushing Institute, which he filled for one year, pursuing at the same time the studies oi the curriculum for that part of his college course. He entered the senior class of the University at Lewisburg, Pa, graduating in 1864 an "honor man," receiving then the degree of A B. In 1867 he was award. ed the Masters Ovation, by the faculty oi the same university, at which time he re. ceived second diploma conferring upon him the degree of AM. In 1888, the scholastic degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the faculty and board of trustees of his alma mater, under the pres
 ent corporate name, Bucknell University, '.for distinguished attainments in legal learning" accompanied with congratu. latory. letter from the president stating that the honor was without any solicita. tion on the part of the recipient, and was conferred on motion of the university $ own officials. Dr. Ripley has been honor. ed by the alumni of Bucknell, in being twice elected president of its New York Alumni Club, which office he now holds. He has held intimate and confidential re. lations with the faculties of the University of Rochester, the University at Lewisburg, and the University of the City of New York since his graduation, and was strong. ly urged by the alumni and friends oi Bucknell to become candidate for the presidency of Bucknell University on the refinement of Dr. Hill, in 18ss; but prefer
 ence for his chosen profession, and duties he owed to himself in other directions
 rendered such an undertaking impractica
 ble. The life of our subject has been @ busy one. He has been engaged in 6 large and active practice as lawyer at the bar of New York since 1865. He has won