The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-25
LAWSCHOOLCOM IMPEACHMENT
THE EXER CISES HELD IN HENDRTE
 HALL AFTERNOON.

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 Townsend Prize Won by CorneIiu
 Porter Mitchell of New York City
 The Alumni Banquet-Announce
 ments by Dean WayIand- Judg
 Knowlton's Address to Graduatin,
 CIass-Law school Prizes Announced
 The annual commencement exercises
 of the Yale Law school were held yes
 terday afternoon, and for the first tim,
 in the history of that department O
 Yale university the exercises were helt
 in distinctively law school building
 the new Hendrie hall. The annual ban
 quet of the alumni association of the
 school was held at 1 o'clock in the
 school library, Stewart catering. A
 large number of the alumni were back
 for the exercises, but the attendance
 was hardly as large as last year.
 After the banquet had been served
 Judge Loomis, formerly chief justice of
 the Connecticut supreme court and now
 state referee, the venerable president of
 the Law School Alumni association
 arose and in brief but appropriate re-
 marks opened the post-prandial exer- | cises. He addressed himself particu-
 larly to the younger lawyers present, and recalled the differences between the
 law practice of the early part of the
 nineteenth century and that of to-day, the opening of the twentieth century.
 He thought that wider opportunities were opening for the lawyer of this cen tury Judge Loomis closed his intro- ductory remarks by reading humor- ous poem which, with it's legal parlance, brought forth roars of laughter from the lawyers present.
 Seated about the speakers table were Judge Loomis, Chief Justice Torrance, of the state supreme court, Judge Gag CT, of the superior court Dean Way land. of the Law school, Professor George D. Watrous, Professor Brew ster, of the University of Michigan, Professor Lawson, of the University of Missouri, Professor Rogers, Professor Foster, Professor Beers, of the Yale Law school, Judge Simeon F. Baldwin, ex-Senator T. J. Fox, Attorney Charles H. Fowler, Vice President Bowers, of the Alumni association, and Judge Munger, of Derby
 After the introductory remarks Judge Loomis introduced Vice President Bow CTS as the toastmaster. MT Bowers accepted the position in an appropriate speech and introduced as the first speaker Dean Wayland. In the course of his remarks Professor Wayland made three announcements of interest to the alumni. He announced that be- ginning next year there would be a course of instruction in elocution eX- tending through the entire three-year course of the Law school; that Judge Prentice, recently appointed judge of the supreme court, would next year re- sume his course of instruction in the Law school in pleading and practice; and that there is now on hand sum sufficient to pay off all the Law school the required amount hav- ing been made up by contribution rendered Sunday and accepted then and turned over to the treasurer, despite the day The announcements were greeted with cheers from the alumni l present.
 After Professor Wayland, Judge Tor rance was introduced and spoke brief | ly. In the course of his remarks he | advised the young lawyers that there | were four elements of success to a l young lawyer-good health, a good To- | cation, good habits and a wife. This l ast requirement. was mentioned by the | Judge with all seriousness, but was re- ,eived with shouts of laughter.
 Others who spoke were Professor Brewster, Professor Lawson, Professor Rogers and Attorney Beatty of Spring field, Mass, graduate of Yale in the ,lass of 1895.
 The officers of the Alumni association were then all reelected. They are: President, Judge Loomis; vice presi- lent. E. o. Bowers; secretary, Profess or Foster.
 At 8 o'clock the alumni adjourned to he assembly room in Hendrie hall, where the Townsend prize speaking ook place and the address to the grad Iation class was delivered by Hon. Iarcus P. Knowlton, ILL D., of the su- ,reme court of Massachusetts. Judge address Is published in sub tance below. The subject of the ad- ress was Legislative and Judicial De- isions in Their Relations to Each Oth- r and to the Law"
 Dean Wayland presided at these ex- rcises and seated on the platform with i'm were President Hadley, Judge Baldwin, Judge Torrance, Judge Gager Watrous, Judge Knowlton, 'rofessor Beers and Professor Foster. The Townsend prize speakers, with he subjects of their orations, were as blows:
 Henry Hotchkiss Townshend, B. A., f New Haven, Yale university 1897, The Case of China Against the Pow rs."
 Cornelius Porter Kitchel, B. A. of lew York, Yale university, 1897, Con Eitutional Disfranchisement in the outh."
 Horace Greedy Eastburn, B. A., of -nion. Del, Delaware university, 1895, The Foundation of the Right to Gov n" Edward Francis Hallen, of Bridge ,rt "The Case of China Against the owers." The judges of the competition were i rofessor John D. Lawson, LL. D., Pro- ssor J. H. Brewster and A. Heaton obertson, of New Haven. At the close the speaking the judges withdrew, 1 Id later, at the close of Judge Knowl- { ms address, President Hadley an-
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