The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15
WAYLAND'S WORK AT YALE.
SERVICES TO THE LAW SCHOOL
As 4 MONEY GETTER.
Building Up Of the Institution Under His
Direction--s,ories Of the Early Days
Some Of the Gifts Secured by Him
Has Now Presented His Resignation.

Some Of the Gifts Secured by Him
Has Now Presented His Resignation.
NEW HAVEN. March a.. Dean Francis
Waylsnd of the Yale law school. who has
lust presented his resignation. to take
effect next June, joined the Yale faculty
thirty -one years ago, when the law school
had only seven students. four of whom
we're very doubtful along scholarship
lines. The catalogue indeed showed that
the school had registered twenty-one
students.
One Of the professors said to-day that
may tic ,,saiogue was all right as far as
it went, il neglected to explain that four
teen Of the twenty-one were studying law
in law Offices in the city and their only
connection with the law department OF Yale
was that sometimes they attended one
Of the lectures or did little reading Of
law books in the law library. Among
the funny stories OF his early experiences
that Dean Wayland used to tell was one
about how he sweled the catalogue to
respectable dimensions by counting in
as students all the young men in local law
Offices that would stray into any of the
courses or would enter the law library for a
copy Of the statutes.
There had been for about forty years
a pretense OF law school. and when Dean
Wayland settled in this city TO practise
law it was having a hard struggle for
existence. He took an interest in the
school with three other New Haven lawyers
and determined TO give it boost by con-
tributing his services as an Instructor.
His three legal friends also volunteered
L..x - Aatn Ia hat
there would be no fixed compensation.
In those days the tuition fees were divided
among the professors according to the
number of hours they taught during the
year. When one Of the professors hap
pened to be i'll and. therefore. unable to
attend his class, he was locked for the num-
ber OF hours he was out Of the class room.
Then, again. IL one Of the instructors
happened to be part icularly busy in court
with his cases the students in the school
wouldn't see him for the time being. Never
theless. Dean Wayland and the other three
instructors were pretty faithful in attend
ancc.
Dean Wayland. it is said, never took a
cent for his services, all the pay to which he
was entitled at the end OF the year going
into a fund TO provide another professor
for the school. In this way, at the end Of
very few years. the department was greatly
strengthened in its corps OF instructors.
Dean Wayland was formally appointed
instructor In 1871. and the next year the
corporation made him a professor, and
in the year following he became dean.
II In said Of Dean Wayland that he has
been the most successful money getter
connected with Yale University, even sur
passing, comparatively speaking, the high
record re ached by the Rev. Timothy Dwight,
president OF the university. Dean Way
land used to say that 1t was more difficult
10 collect money for law school than for
any other department OF university.
People, explained the dean, .are willing
enough TO help along medical or a divinity
school. but they draw the line on the law
department The majority OF persons
think that lawyers get their living out Of
the public and they are not inclined 10
help along an incubator that Is turning out
more Of these men every year than is neces-
sAry, In their judgment. The music depart
ment will have its admirers who will assist
IL. but even IL the lawyer is rich enough
to give a plump sum to the law school he
would rather give his money to the mis-
sionary than assist a young lawyer to a
start"
Nearly TWENTY-FIVE years ago he invited
I.fa vette Poster IN lecture a, the Yale
law school and told him about the impov-
erished condition OF the department
few weeks later Mr.. Foster informed Judge
wsyland that he would remember the
Yale law school in his will. When Mr..
Foster died it was found that his will pro-
vided that his estare should 60 To the school
upon the death of his widow. Whenever
NJ. ros,er and Dean Vavland mo, they
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