The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-28
THE LAW SCHOOL.
seventy-fourth Anniversary Celebrated
 Yesterday.

TILE LII " SCHOOL.
 Seventy-fOurth Anniversary Celebrated Yesterday.
 | The exercises attendent upon the eel ebration of the seventy fourth anni- versary of the law school began at 130 | o'clock yesterday afternoon. At that | time a large number of the alumni and the members of the graduating | class assembled in the library of the law school building, where the annual ner being concluded Judge Simeon E.. | Baldwin was appointed toastmaster. He then made short speech in which he presented to the school, in behalf of Hon. D. J. Phelps, an elegant life size oil painting of Hon. Francis Way | land, dean of the law school. Dean | Wayland was then called upon for a | speech and in behalf of the alumni and friends he presented a painting of a similar character of Hon. 10. J. Phelps. He spoke as follows:
 Edward J. Phelps is known through out the civilized world as jurist, public | iot etllAi oipiOiliIelSt' III tiiio SohAisiJ AiS | Is counted one of the leaders of the American bar, walking securely and serenely on the highest levels of his profession. At Yale, while we are proud of his diplomatic distinction and his professional pre-eminence, we come | into closer contact with him as in- structor and comrade. Since 1881. bar Il ring four years in London, representing this nation at the Court of St. James, he has given instruction in the academ- ic, theological and law departments of Yale. His branches have been juris- prudence, constitutional law, interna- tional law, equity and the relations of the clergy to municipal law. I am sure that hazard nothing in saying that to thoughtful students, nay to young men who are to any extent students, his lecture room is the mos! delightful place on or near the campus. His thorough and accu- rate comprehension of every topic which he touches, his power of convey ing his conceptions in clear and simple language to the minds of his hearers, his ample store of opposite illustrations, his genuine and evident interest in his work and in his pupils, and withal the high ethical standard which he never fails to inculcate, combine to make him, in the highest sense of the word, model instructor. Yale university may we'll be proud to enroll him in the ranks of her world renowned faculty. The generosity of alumni and friends of this school has enabled us to place upon our walls a portrait of our friend and fellow worker, painted by Prof. J. F. Weir, director of Yale Art school.
 The other speakers were Enos N. Taft 53, of Rhode Island; William Krieger of Louisville, Ky: Everett Smith 's5, of Seattle, Wash: J. D. Thompson '95 of Indianapolis, and Will liam L. Burdick of the graduating class. Dean Wayland also read the following appointments: Judge Tor renee as professor of evidence, to suc- ceed E. G. Buckland: Dr. William Frederick Foster, as assistant profess sor, and Philip H. Wells of New Ha- ven, instructor.
 The annual election of officers of the alumni association was held and re- suited as follows: President, Hon. Dwight Loomis, IL. D., of Hartford; :; vice president, Edward A. Bowers Esq. of Washington, D. C.; secretary and treasurer, William F. Foster, D. c. L.. New Haven.
 At o'clock all present headed by the Old Guard band marched to the Col lege street hall, where the class day exercises were held. The speakers for the Townsend prize were Joseph Ondinot l Goy pnAa liam Beattie, jr., and Gilbert Lawrence Hedges. It was won by the latter.
 The masters oration was delivered by John Morris Sheppard, who spoke as | follows:
 PINCKNEY'S WORK IN THE CON-
 STUTIONAL CONVENTION OF
 17S7.
 When the constitutional convention of 17S7 assembled there was among the delegates from South Carolina a young man not yet thirty years of age, who had been prominent in the struggle of his countrymen for liberty, who had as- sisted in the formation of represents tive government for his native colony and who had served with distinction in the Continental congress. This man was Charles Pinckney, the youngest member of the convention.
 His family had given to South Caro- lima and the American colonies some of their greatest lawyers, orators and sol diers. He had been educated for the bar, and had been chosen president of the provincial legislature while not yet of age. It will thus be seen that he was peculiarly fitted by heredity, educa- tion and experience to serve in the convention now assembled for the pur- pose of framing a system of govern ment to take the place of the rapidly disintegrating confederation
 In the Continental congress of 17S5 he had observed the actual working of the confederation, and had seen disorder everywhere. He had taken the leaG while in that congress in suggesting 8 general convention to replace the con- federation with a firmer system. And he ) came to the constitutional convention ) of 17S7 convinced that a complete ) change of government was necessary It may be said In general that the , part Pinckney took in the deliberatior of the constitutional convention was important and effective.
 He believed in strong national gov. ernment, and went so far as to argue ir favor of vesting in congress universa