The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-01
4 WORD FROM FLORIDA.


 Regarding MT. Wurtz, One of Yales New Professors-Regrets at His Departure From His Florida Home,
 The Daily Florida Citizen of Christi mas day last says as follows of the ap- pointment of our former townsman, John Wurtz, to place among the Yale Law school faculty, and who, by the way, was frequent contributor to the columns of the Journad and Courier in his college days:
 One Of Iacksonville's citizens, and Q prominent member of the bar, has been honored with an appointment to an i'm portant position on the faculty of the law department of Yale university, The rumor was heard yesterday after noon, and a call on John Wurts at his home in Riverside last evening confirm ed it.
 Yes, 1t is true" said he, when ques- toned about the matter by Citizen re- porttr, "I have been offered a position on that faculty, and shall leave Jack Sonville to enter on the duties of my position early in February, Professor NNNe'AARCAh been offered and accepted tht position of dean of the faculty of the great Catholic university in Washington, and although he will not spend all of his time at Washington. 1 shall fill the duties of his position, and eventually shall fill a professorship that is still to bt created at Yale. The growth of the law department as of other depart ments of the university, has necessi- tated the employment from time to time of special lecturers and instructors, and l accepttd the invitation to fill such position early in the fall I went as a sort of vacation, not knowing the the authorities had any interior motive for extending the invitation to me. The result has been that I have been asked to remain and create the new position in the department. have accepted the position and will leave here some time in February. My partnership with MT. Fletcher will expire on the 1st Of that month, and from that time my home will be in New Haven"
 The faculty of the Yale Law school contains some of the foremost names in the legal profession in the country. Among these are Judge Simeon E. Bald- win, judge of the supreme court of the state of Connecticut, and formerly the president of the American Bar associa- tion; Judge Shipman of the United States circuit court; Judge Townsend of the United States district court; Roger Foster, the best known writer of legal text books in this country; and Hon. Edward Phelps formerly minister to England, and pudge of the supreme court of Vermont Several other very prominent and well known men are on the same faculty. About two hundred and thirty students are now enrolled in he law school
 MT Wurts was a member of the class of 1878 in Yale college, although he left college at the end of his junior year and went to New Zealand where he spent several years. Returning to this country, he entered the law school at Yale, and graduated in 1884 His class contained several men who have made great regulations for themselves. One of thse classmates was Edward Whitneys assistant attorney general of the United States; also Judge Taft of Minnesota, who made his name known throughout the country in 1894 by his decisions in the labor questions that were agftating the northwest at that time.
 MT. Wurts said last evening that he had consented to make the change on account of his family, He stated that he was giving up a fine law practice here and which he preferred to instruct ing
 The members of the Jacksonville bar will keenly regret MT. Wurts removal from the city, as will many friends that he has here and in other portions of the state.