The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-26
THE LAW SCHOOL EXERCISES
ALUMNI MEETING IND SEFENi F.
 SIXTH ANNIVERS1RY.

day AfsernOoh-Addresst to the Uradu- ntimg Glass by Hon. w. BOurks l Cockrnn-Townsend Prize Awarded to w. D. Makcpence-O .her Priz' Awards Announced. The annual meeting of the Yale Law | School Alumni association and the sev- enty-sixth anniversary exercises of the Law school. the chief events of com mencement week for that department ol | the university, were held yesterday A l banuuet attended by the alumni and | the members of the graduating class was held in the library of the Law | school building from 1 o'clock to 6 o'clock D. m. The appearance Of the | library was completely changed for the :, occasion. Where usually during the university year students are seated hard at work boring over legal terms | there was linen, china and other accom- paniments of banquet. About the | library tables which were i'll festive ar- ray sat small army of men Of the law. There were young lawyers and old law yers, fat lawyers and lean lawyers, suc- cessfu lawyers and some who are not | so successful. In all about 300 sat down l to the spread.
 After the menu had been gone | through, Judge Loomis, president of 1 the Alumni associa ton, rose and in a speech introduced Judge Simeon F, Baldwin as toastmaster of the occasion. | t,t | I.oomis spoke of the late Hon. D. J. Phelps who he said, whenever he dis cussed subject left but little for others to say that was pertinent to the SUD- ject The younger members Of the pro fession, if they wanted lofty Ideal o1 a lawyer and a asstatesman and Iowa ble and manly man he commended them to the memory of Prof. Phelps. Judge Loomis also spoke of the late Henry c. Robinson as an honored graduate or Yale, though not of the Yale Law school He hoped that his hearers would never forget the ethical side of the law as taught by MT Robinson. Judge Loomis then introduced the toastmaster
 As Judge Baldwin rose he was greet ed by loud and prolonged applause, Glancing about the hall Judge Baldwin referred to some of the members of the older classes whom he noticed present. Among these were Colonel Worcester Of the class of 1S46 Judge Loomis of the class of 1S47, and General Darlington of the class of 1S4S. Judge Baldwin in the course of his remarks referred to the qualification he felt that the school was to have a new building, Hendrie hall now nearing completion. He welcomed all the graduates of the past half cen tury who were present. He then called upon the speakers. The speeches were necessarily brief owing to the short n- terval between the banquet and the an- niversary exercises in College street hall. The speakers called upon were Homer $. Cummings, mayor of Stam- ford; Judge William K. Townsend of the United States district court, Sena- tor Welch of Torrington, judge of the court of common pleas of that place; Charles H. Studinski of the Law school, class of 1S99 The following officers of the Alumni associa tion were re-elected; President, Judge Loomis, vice presi- dent, MT. Bowers; secretary Professor
 
 election speeches were made by Profes- sor William l.. Burdick of the Law school of the University of Kansas, Pro- lessor Parker of Buffalo Law school and Hon. Edward B. Whitney, ex-as- sistant attorney general of the United States.
 At the close of the banquet and speaking procession was formed head ed by the Old Guard band and marched to College street hall. First marched the faculty of the Law school then the graduating class and then the alumni.
 At College street hall at the opening of the exercises Dean Wayland, Bourke Cochran, Judge Townsend, Judge Bald win, Judge Torrance, Judge Gager Pro- lessor George A. Beers, Professor Will liam Frederic Foster, Professor Wurts, Judge Loomis occupied seats on the platform. Later in the exercises those members of the corporation who are in the city. including Rev. pr. Munger, Rev. Dr. Palmer, Rev. pr. Anderson and Rev. Dr. Backus came into the hall and took seats on the platform Music was furnished during the exercises by Mallon's orchestra seated in the bal cony
 First on the programme was the speaking for the Townsend prize The speakers were introduced by Dean Wayland The speakers with their sub jects were:
 Herbert David Palmer, B. A., Yale university 1893, Des Moines, Iowa--The Future of India
 Walter Durham Makepeace. B. A, M. A. Yale university, 1897, M. A. Yale university 1899, Springfield, Mass-The White Mans Burden
 Archibald w. Powell, M. S.. Califor- mia Normal, 1894, Latrobe, Pa.-The Flu ture of India.
 At the close of the delivering of the orations the judges, w. E. Foster of Buffalo, George D. Hall of Bridgeport and Professor Burdick of Lawrence, Kan, retired to consider the merits of the orations.
 Following the Townsend orations the address to the graduating class was de- livered by Hon. w. Bourke Cochran, who spoke on "The Lawyer of the Next Generation" MT. Cochran was intro- duced by President Arthur T. Hadey of the university, who said of the ora tor: He never touches a subject ex- received with rounds of applause from the young lawyers and from the large audience MT. Cochran spoke in part as follows, speaking extemporaneously
 Tt is the experience of every lawyer