The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-22


 delegates, Oliver Ellsworth. Thougl
 he graduated at Princeton, he was { | student at Yale three years. Roge1
 sherman, too, in some degree belongs 1 to Yale college, having been its treas urer for ten years and more. The con l stitution, as finally recommended bJ l the convention, was put in final shape | by committee appointed to revise the l style and arrange the articles, of which 1 William Samuel Johnson was chair
 man, the other nlemb bers being Hamil- ton, Morris Madison and King. | Yale was influential in the conven- l tions of the states by which the consti- tuition was adopted; in Massachusetts
 through Theodore Sedgwick, in New York through Richard Morris, John S. Hobart and Philip Livingston, in Con-
 necticut through Ellsworth and many others. And when the national gov
 ernment under the constitution was es- tablished, the influence of Yale was felt in the first congress, notably through William Samuel Johnson and Oliver Ellsworth, who drew the act of 17S9 for the organization and regulation of the federal courts.
 I refer to Chancellor Kent of the class of 17S1, who perhaps outranks all other Americans as contributor to the advance of law. He served in the leg islature of New York. He was one of two commissioners appointed in 1900 to revise the laws. While engaged in practice, he was for several years from 1793, professor of law at Columbia and
 
 he resumed this work in his later years For sixteen years he was a justice, and for ten years chief justice of the su- preple court of New York, and for sev en years chancellor of that state And, after his retirement from the bnch on account of age, he wrote, and revised through three editions, his commenta- rles.
 On account of an endowment re- ceived from friends and admirers of Chancellor Kent, the professorship in 1883 was named the Kent Professorship of Law. It has always belonged to the academic department That some knowledge of the law should be ac- quired by all who claim to be educated men, has been recognized at Yale since the beginning of the nineteenth centu- ry. Work to this end, however, can hardly be said to have been prosecuted satisfactorily until. in 1881, the Hon. Edward J. Phelps accepted the profess sorship, which he continued to hold un- til his death, although his duties were suspended during his absence In Eng land. The services of Professor Phelps in this professorshlp, as we'll as in the Law school, are so well known and so lately ended as to need no comment.
 The law school in Litchfield, started in 17s2, and the first of its kind in this country, cannot be claimed as Yale foundation. since Judge Reeve, it's founder, was a graduate of Princeton. But in 179S, James Gould of the class of 1T91, became associated with Judge Reeve in the conduct of the school, and after 1920, when Judge Reeve retired, had charge of 1t until it's discontinu- ance in 1S33 Meantime Seth P, Sta pes, of the class of 1797, started a pri- vate school in New Haven After time Samuel J. Hitchcock of the class of 1909 assisted him. And when MT. Staples went to New York in 1924, he left the school to Mir. Hitchcock and Judge Daggett, Judge Daggett being appointed Kent professor of law, the school was treated as 8 Yale institu- tion, although degrees were not con ferred upon it's graduates until 1S43. In ls47 a new law faculty was appointed, of 1Governor Blssell and Judge Dutton. After the death of Gov ernor Dutton, in 1869. the faculty was Under the management built upon the foundation then made the school has attained the high posi- ton 1t now holds among the law schools of the country.
 Speaking of the study and teaching If the law, and standing in this pres ance, we cannot fall to read from the of this chapel the names of two persons, who in other connections ! will receive tributes of love and vene- | ration in this bratlon--7Prasldent | Woolsey. because of his work in inter- | 1a tional law. and Professor James | Ia0ey, because of his work in Roman | aw. The study of the law greatly at- | racted Professor Hadley during the alter part of his life. Would that his jtrong and luminous mind had been permitted longer to roam in this field, | md to give to the world further fruits # his research.
 The topic "Yale in Legislation calls o mind host of the sons of Yale who, IS senators, representatives in con- ,ress, governors and state legislators rave wrought well and done honor to heir Alma Mater
 In congress, the figure which rises lbove the rest, because of historical is that of John c. Calhoun f the class of 1904.
 Gladly would we dwell upon the rec rds of many others of the sons of Yale vho have done honor to themselves nd to Yale in the senate and the ouse of representatives. But this rould require selection from about six y senators and about one hundred and fty representatives. And the hour is wing.
 The record of Yale on the bench is because of its fullnass. The second chief justice of the United tates supreme court was Oliver Els ,orth, student at Yale for three ears, although graduated at Prince 1n. Henry Baldwin of the class of 1797 'as justice of that court from 1880 to s44. In 1870, William Strong, of the lass Of 1920, became justice of that ourt, and so continued until 1SS0 Iorrison R. Waite, of the class of 1S37, ,as chief justice from 1874 to 1888. He as an Alumni Fellow of Yale from