The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23
COMMENCEMENT AT YALE
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fered by the laws that are actually made. Examine the annual or bi-en- nial volumes of any state, the one, for example, that you are best acquainted with; and say then if you find there any, the slightest, work which seems to you as if it could have come from the hand of a jurist--I do not say of Trl- bonian or q Grotius, but to anyone to whom jurisprudence is not an unknown word. If the jurisprudence of 0 na- tion is to have an orderly, systematic, -proportioned growth, consistent with itself in all It's parts, it must be developed under the guidance of men who are learned in it; the work of the unlearned will be the work of 'prentices or botches; and it's results will be in like manner disastrous as If men of like incompetency were set to work on the engines of an ocean steamer.
 "The constitution itself is certainly one of the most splendid products of the human intellect, was the work of great lawyers, of lawyers in the com mon law of England at least; and otherwise than by a body mainly made up of English lawyers it never could have been produced.
 Aid by all the inStrumentalities available to you in directing the opin- ion of your profession, and public opin- ion, too, toward true reforms in juris- prudence by legislative methods, know ing that no work which a lawyer can do for his community-none, perhaps, that any man can do-surpasses in hh np Iii just, more clear, or more sure the laws under which his fellow men are to live.
 Continue or if your absorption in other studies has hitherto precluded you from these-begin and pursue, not merely for the personal profit and en- joyment they will bring you but that obligation to your country, the eXamin- ation of all systems, in all ages and in all lands. Your studies may not help you in your next horse case, and if your purpose has no further scope than that l speak to you in vain, and might well regret speaking to such a one at all.
 ''The special work to which, aside from the necessary work to which you dedicate yourselves to-day, I commend
 
 of law; not merely that which is in the strictest sense jurisprudence, but all law affecting social conditions. No study of social problems can be much better than vague and futile which does not presuppose some knowledge of the positive laws, written or unwritten, which have regulated society in it's va rious conditions.
 ITO no nobler avocation could you be welcomed than that upon which you now enter. It is the maintenance, the enforcement, the study, and the order ly and just development of law. upon which civilization rests, in which it may almost be said to consist; of law whose seat is the bosom of God and which is the negation of cruel force; of law which has brought the world so far, since history's dawn, toward that Far off divine event to which thewhole
 creation moves
 and which among nations, as well as in natons, has already gone far, though not yet far enough, toward substitut- ing the brief of the jurist for the club of the bully. And I welcome you to the glorious opportunity which is to come to the men of your generation, of extending to the commonwealth of nations in greater measure than ever hitherto, the dominion of mans noblest creation--to the federation of the world, as now to the federation of states, or to the several states, where Sovereign Law, the States collected will,
 Ger thrones and globes elate,
 Sits Empress, crowning good, repress- ing ill'"
 Following the address President Dwight announced the following prizes l and honors in the school: PRIZES AND HONORS, YALE LAW SCHOOL, 1896. | Townsend prize ($100), to that mem 1 Der of the senior class who shall write and pronounce the best oration al graduation-John L. Hall. | Committee of award-E. N. Taft | Esq, New York city; Thomas Thacher Esq, Professor T. & Woolsey. Jewell prize ($50), to that member ot 1 the senior class who receives the high. est marks at his final examination Ernest Knaebel, B. A.. Yale university 1 1894.
 | Munson prize (S50), for the best grad. uating thesis by member of the sen. | for class-Ernest Knaebel, B. A, Yale university, 1894; with special honorable mention of Francis Joseph Fearful l Committee of aWard-TalCott H. Rus. sell, Esq, Leonard M. Daggett, Esq 1 Samuel c. Morehouse, Esq
 Betts prize ($5O), to that member ot the junior class who receives the high. l est marks at his examnation-Chris | topher Lester Avery, B. A., Yale uni l Versity. 1893.
 Wayland prizes ($50 S30 $20). to those
 three members of the Yale Kent clut
 (from the senior class) who, at public l competitive debate, are pronounced ! first, second and third in excellence as 1 debaterS:
 First prize--Herbert Humphrey Kel
 logg, B. A, Yale university. 1894.
 Second prize-Ernest Gray Smith, Ph | B., Lafayette college, 1894. Third prize-William Luther Tibbs | Ph. B, Colorado college, 1894. 1 Committee of award-Hon. c. M. De
 pew, ILL. D., New York city; Rev
 George William Douglas, D D.. Nev Haven; c. N. Kendall, Esq, New Na
 ven.
 HONORS.
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