Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-08
THE VERMONT BAR AND YALE.

THE VERMONT BAR AND YALE.
The mention of Judge Chapman as a
Vermont Judge is reminder that our
Green Mountain state cuts quite figure
In the judicial profession among Yale
students. Charles f. Clemens, a lawyer
practicing at Butte, Mont, who has been
looking up the Yale records, has this to
say about the Vermont bar:
The judges of the supreme court of
Vermont have been Yale men, three of
them being chief justices. They are:
Chief Justice Enoch Woodbridge, IVA !;
Nathaniel Chapman, 1777; and Israel
Smith, l7Sl; and Justice Stephen r.
Bradley, 1775; Stephen Jacob, 177S {;
Noah Smith, 177S; Daniel Farrand, 1871 !;
Joel Doolittle, 1893; Milo L. Bennett,
1911 ; and Samuel S. Phelps, 1911. Of
this number Judges Chapman, Smith,
Bradley and Phelps represented Vermont
in the United States Senate. Chief JUS
tice Chapman also served as Judge of the
United States district court and was for
some time professor of law at Middle
bury college. Judge Smith was one of
Vermont's early governors and Judge
Bennett attained some distinction as the
author of several legal works. Webster
is credited with having pronounced
Judge Phelps the greatest lawyer of his
time. Some other Vermonters of note
who have studied at Yale are Horatio
Seymour, 1897, United States senator !;
John Gregory Smith, the "war COVER
nor" and president of the Northern Pa
cific and Central Nermont!railroads, who
was graduate of the Yale law school /;
Edward j. Phelps, who, though grad
uate of Middlebury, completed, his prcrar-
alton for the bar in the law department
of Yale, and afterward held the chair of
constitutional law in that university; and
Edward Curtis Smith, 1875, president of
governor of the state.-Rutland Herald.
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ABSURD NEWSPAPER NOTORlETY.
The Messenger learns with joy from
the perusal of a metropolitan exchange
that Mr.. Il. Sophomore Rubberneck will
coach some varsity somethingorother
this fall, and is also highly edited by an
opportunity to gaze upon likeness of
the said Rubberneck. This likeness
occupies a space of about half a page
of the newspaper and depictsI Rubber
neck in little short panties and zebra
striped sweater. Sophomore is likely
looking boy. Sophmore is a credit to the
American youth. But Sophomore is worth
a great deal more newspaper space now
than he ever will be again. Just at
present, it is "news" to learn that Soph-
| 70 int i
bilty, that he rises at 80 a. IN. and
runs around iellOwstOne Park twice and
then takes plunge in a cup of cold tea,
after that being rubbed down, or up, and
takes whirl at the horizontal bars and
chest weights. 1t is "news" to learn
that he stubbed his toe against his will
and will not be able to kick on his food
for day or two, or that suspender
buckle has chafed his back and he may
not be able to play foot ball or hi.ball
until the day after when. The world is
very anxious to hear about Mr.. T. Soph-
more Rubberueck and will rejoice to
know that he is subject to sudden attacks
of gOoseflesh Just like other mOrtals
when he steps out of his bed in his
nightie on cold nights. Seriously, though,
he is good boy, a lusty lad, and we are
all proud of him, butts he actually worth
more newspaper space and pictures than
such men as George F. Hoar, for instance
Aren't the newspapers rather OVERRIDING
this thing? Where is the sense OF
relative news proportion?-St. Adams
Messenger.
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