Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-24

Gle ear to every temporary shout of the
people; but he only who measures every
step, even in defiance Of angry passion, by
the unchanging, scale immutable justice,
will win the crown of Immortality, and
wear unfading laurels. In all your lives,
and in all your acts, bear with you the
motto of our profession: Fiat Justitia."
At the close of the address the commit
tee on the award of the Townsend prize
announced their decision in favor of
George Edward Hill.
PRIZES AWARDED IN YALE LAW SCHOOL,
1891.
best Grafton at graduation, George Edwin Hill, B.
Committee Of award Hon. Asa French, Bos-
Jewell prize cs5oSm-for he best examination at
SoD tnas
the graduating class who has made the greatest
Georee
Belts prize $50, to the member of the jul
nual examination, divided between william
| Adolphe McQuaid, A. A., Yale, 1889, New Haven
| and Robert Treat Plat, b. A., Yale, 1889, Mil
| Yale Kent club prizes to those two members
| of the club who, at public competitive debate
| lence as debaters: LIST prize GS30l, John Aaron
| Hoober, York, Pa; 2d prize 8so), Benjamin
H l5g5 Charles 'f'' b. A. Westminster college,
With honorable mention of George Hill, B. A.,
Yale, 1887, Stamford, Conn.
Committee Of award-Hon. Luzon B. Morris,
Professor A. M. Wheeler, M. A., George L. Fox,
Munson prize ($5o), for the best graduating
thesis, equally divided between Edward James
Gavegan, B. A., Yale 1891, New Haven, and John
Committee Of award-Hon. Samuel Prentice
lclass Of 1876, E. p Arvine, ESQ. (cass OF 1S7D,
James H. Webb, esq. Cclass of is77).
| HoNoRs.
Senior class, degree of L. L. B, cum laude-
John A. Hober, George A. Kellogg, Israel H.
Peres, John W. Roby, Frederic A. Scott.
Junior class-William P Aiken, John F. Car
4. Mcouaid. Robert 4 Plat, Samuel A. York IT,
LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI.
A Large Attendance at the Second
| Annual Meeting Held Yesterday in
the Court House.
The second annual meeting of the alumni
of the Yale Law school was held in the
common pleas court room, yesterday noon
at 1890 o'clock. The meeting was pre-.
sided over by the Hon. Dwight Loomis OF
the supreme court, in the absence of Hon.
E. J. Phelps, the president of the alumni
association. On the bench with Judge
LOOMS were Hon. Francis Wayland, dear
of the law school, and George D. Watrous
secretary of the association, while on the
floor of the court room were the other
members of the faculty, and about two
hundred alumni of the school. A bounti
full collation. was first served, Deibel Of
New Haven catering, after which speeches
were made by Judge LOOMS, Professor
William G. Robinson, Professor S. E
Baldwin, Professor Townsend, Judge
Brill of the class of 81, Judge Sheldon
Hon. w. NJ. Kingsley, Hon. James P
Pigott, Hon. Hugh Daley, and others
who spoke highly of the past glories O.
the school and of those to come, whe1
they would have their own building, ant
a law school second to none in the coun
try. During the exercises the facult,
, took the opportunity to speak of change
in the way of improvements to be mad
during the coming year.
Mr.. Platt of the class of '92 explained t.
| the alumni that law school periodical
, would be issued during the next year, con
tanning all things of interest to the alum
nj, after which the meeting closed in tim
for the exercises at Center church.