The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
A STANFORD PROFESSOR,
John Norton Pomeroy of This
City Called to PalO Alto
University.
The Young Attorney and Law Editor
to Instruct in Contracts
and Equity.

John Norton Pomeroy, the junior mem
Der of the firm of Pomeroy Il Pomeroy OF
the San Francisco bar, will begin work to-
morrow as a teacher in the law depart
ment at Stanford University. He is one
of the very few ever appointed from this
Coast to the Palo Alto faculty, though it
numbers over hundred persons.
The appointment was made at the sug-
gestion of Professor Abbott. the head of
the law department, who wished to obtain
a competent teacher of contracts and
equity, and in Mr.. Pomeroy he believes he
has found the man.
John Pomeroy is % years of age, and is
son of the late Judge Pomeroy, who was
the author of numerous standard legal
works that bear his name, and at the time
of his death in 1885 and for eight previous
years was head professor at the Hastings
College of Law. In conjunction with his
brother, Carter Pomeroy, the State re-
porter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court, he has edited the later issues of his
fathers text books, and was the sole editor
of Pomeroy's Remedies"
In addition to his legal experience as a
practicing attorney and as law editor,
Mr.. Pomeroy has had an extensive college
training. Graduating from the Boys
High School of this City in 1888, he went
to Yale and was graduated in 'S7. taking
the highest honors of his class. He spent
the next two years. at Yale in post-gradu-
ate work in history and political science,
and in '89 received the degree of MA.
During the next two years he studied in
the law school of Columbia College
and then returned to California and
entered Hastings, from which after a
years work, he received the degree of
LIB.
While at college he was editor of the
Yale Lit and of the Columbia law journal,
and was a mem Ger of the Yale senior
society of "Skull and Bones" of the
national college fraternity of Psi Epsilon,
and of the scholarship order of Phi Beta
Kappa.
law department was organized at
Stanford only two years ago, with Librarian
Woodruff as regular instructor, with Pro-
lessor Abbott of Northwestern Univer-
sity as visiting professor, and with ex-
President Harrison as nonresident lee
turer on international and constitutional
law. Last year Professor Abbott took up
his residence at Palo Alto and devoted his
entire time to the law work at the uni
versity. He is graduate of Yale and of
Boston University and was professor of
law at the University of Michigan during
1892, and professor of law at North
accepted his present position.
Professor Woodruff was recently adj
vanced to full professorship in law and
granted years leave of absence to pursue
private works and study in the East.
During the summer of 1894 he and Profess
sor Huffcuff of Cornell compiled and
edited a legal treatise.
Last year 101 students, or nearly 10 per
cent of the entire student body, took law
as major study, English and history be-
ing the only departments with larger ell
rollment. This year seventeen courses are
offered in law, and large number Of stu
dents will probably take the work, only
four having been lost from the department
by graduation. Professor Abbott has
brought his entire law library out from the
East and will place it where it can be used
by his students.
Unlike professional law schools of the
country the courses at Stanford form one of
the regular departments of the university
and the student must pass the examination
imposed for admission to the university In
order to take the law work, which is further
strengthened by courses in history and
economics, four years being necessary to
complete the requirements for the only
degree granted, that of Alb.