The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-24

was appointed again to his old place in
 the governors council which still con-
 stituted the supreme court of errors of the state. It was duty to be per- | formed and weary and worn as he was
 he accepted it. There he served after
 his ifelong habit, faithfully and well, | despite severe and recurring attacks of | disease. The old judicial system was lchanged in 1897 and the chief justiceship
 under the new arrangement was offered
 to Ellsworth. He at first consented, but then withdrew his acceptance.
 After such fashion he passed through
 his great public career. Distinguished
 at the bar, he brought the training of | lawyer to his work as a statesman. | Most eminent as a maker of constitu- | tions and laws he carried his large ex- | perience with him to adorn the bench
 where he occupied the highest place. | As a diplomatist he united all his pow
 CTS as statesman and jurst in making treaty which to-day was one of the momentous events in the early years of conflict and peril.
 In the history of the United States the vital compromise which secured the eX- istence of the constitution is branded with his name and the great system of the federal courts of the jurisprudence of the United States bears upon it's foundation stone the name of a lawyer who drafted the first judiciary act"
 LAW SCHOOL AWARD OF PRIZES.
 Immediately after the address the an- nouncement was made that James Mark Sullivan of Waterbury had been awarded the Townsend prize for his su- perior work in the oratorical contest of the afternoon. Announcement was also made of the conferring of the follow ing honors for the past years work:
 Louis A. Dyar of Winona, Minn., won the Joseph Parker prize Established by the will of Miss Eliza T. Parker in 1S9S), of one hundred dollars, for the best thesis on a subject connected with Roman Law, presented by any menl- Der of the school at graduation from either the undergraduate or graduate course.
 Edward H. Kelly of New Britain won the Edward Thompson company prize: A set of the first or of the second edi- tion of the Encyclopaedia of Law, or a set of the Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice, as the successful com petitor may elect awarded to that member of the senior class who shall pass the best examination in the studies of that year.
 Charles w Bronson of New Haven won the Jewell prize Established by the Hon. Marshall Jewell, M. A., in 1S7D, of fifty dollars, to that member of the middle class who receives the highest marks at his annual examina- tion.
 George Whittlesey of New Haven won the Betts prize Established by Frederic H. Betts, M. A., in 1S75), of fifty dollars, awarded to that member of the junior class who receives the highest marks at his annual examina- tion.
 Henry R. Thompson of Bellows Falls, l Vt, won the Munson prize Established | by c. LaRue Munson, LL.B., M. A, in 1S90), of fifty dollars, for the best | senior class.
 The honor men in the three classes | were announced as follows:
 Graduate class--For the degree of M. l L., Michael Bernard Murley, L.L.B., of | Kansas City Mo, cum laude.
 Senior class-Edward H. Kelly of | New Britain, summa cum laude; Charles T. Lark of Milersbure Pa, and | John F. Malley of Springfield, Mass l magma cum laude William H. Dar- row of Unionville Conn. Chandler w | Durbrow of San Francisco, Cal. Louis A. Dyar of Winona, Minn., Lucius P. Fuller of Willmantic, Conn, Garfield | R. Jones of Evanston, Ill, Oscar l.. of Meriden, Conn. Max we'll Slade of New Haven and Eliot Watrous of New Haven, all cum laude.
 Middle class-George H. Bartholomew of New Haven, Clarence w. Bronson of New Haven, Louis P. Burton of New Haven, Leopold deSolo Bobadilla of Havana, Cuba; Stanley w. Edwards of Iranby, Conn. and Charles D. Lock- wood of Stamford, Conn.
 Junior class--Lloyd s. Alderman of San Francisco, Call Henry c. An irews of Fishkill N T.. Hal C. Bangs If Chatworth, Ill. David A. Dowsett if Honolulu, H. l.; George D. Graves of Cambridge Mass; John H. Sears of St. Louis, Mo, and George N. Whittlesey # New Haven, Conn.