The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23
BANQUET AND POLISHING

At Yale Law School Buildins-IlIustrious
 Sons of Yale Uphold Their Alma Mater.
 The annual meeting of the Yale Law School Alumni association was held in the new Law school building on Elm street yesterday afternoon at 1:30.
 An excellent luncheon was served by Deibel and after the luncheon, while all remained seated at the tables, speeches were made by prominent men of the alumni.
 Hon. Judge Loomis called the meet ing to order and appointed Dean Way land toastmaster. He also nominated as a committee to elect officers for the ensuing year Enos N. Taft '53, Burton Mansfield '7S and John s. Fowler '64 who reported as follows at the close of the meeting: President, Judge Dwight Loomis; vice president, William K. Townsend; secretary and treasurer. Leonard M. Daggett 'S7
 Dean Wayland first introduced Judge William K. Townsend. In brief Judge Townsend said that he had not yet re- covered from the effects of looking over the examination papers of the senior class. In fact he said he had been sui fering from indigestion ever since.
 Thomas Thacher, esq, of the New York bar was the next speaker. He said: If a man had no thought in the world one would come to him when re- turning to his Alma Mater. Yale is. Yale was. And Yale is going to be more than she is. It is the university altogether which makes the man. each department is dependent upon the oth- CTS. This department is stronger be- cause of the others and for that reason we have no right to expect that law makers who are broad minded will be the men turned out from this Yale Law school
 The Hon. Theodore Bacon offered to read the oration he had prepared for the meeting to follow in College street hall, As he felt assured that it was not desired, he likened the costumes of seniors to those worn by the justices of the supreme court of the United States He said it was well to become accus- toned to them beforehand, and prophe- sled the donning of those more august robes by these same men, later in life.
 Charles W. Pierson, who will con- duct the course in New York practice next year, claimed his inability to teach the New York code. His remarks seemed to voice the opinion of all, and afterward the New York code suffered at many hands.
 George Hill '91 of Bridgeport was in- troduced as one of the good lawyers who did not go to New York.
 William H. Law 80 of New York, for merly of this city, congratulated the members of '96 law school for being about to graduate from Yale univer- sity. To graduate from the Yale Law school is to graduate from the best law school in the country. They have ad- vantageS in instructors and other op- portunities connected with the diversity which places this school foremost Moreover, Connecticut has the simplest and perhaps the most effective code of any state in the Union.
 Dean Wayland was about to leave in order to attire himself in his official robe, but before going asked all to join in the procession to College street hall; and. he said. for the first time in the history of the school they would be headed by a brass band.
 MT Masseo 96 after Dean Wayland had retired told how instrumentala the Yale Law school had been in the radical changes which had taken place in Japan during the past decade. Her graduates occupy foremost positions in Japan, and if not represented among the justices of the supreme court of Japan, these justices are disciples of Yale Law school men.
 Edward B. Whitney, ST, of New York and Washington made an address in addition to the above.
 At the conclusion of the exercises the whole association formed in procession and marched to College street hall. The procession was headed by the Old Guard band. Behind the band came the officers and professors of the school, followed by the alumni by classes, the graduating class bringing up in the rear in cap and gown.