The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-23
ADDRESS ON LATE DEAN.
MEMORY OF FRANCIS MAITLAND HoSoRED BY DEAN ROBINSON.

AO4 OALO DL OLEA AODAAcONs Professor Robinson, of Catholic Univer-
 sity, spoke FeeIIneIy of Late Dean of
 Yale Law sehooI-Hendrie Hall Scene
 of Gathering of Faculty and Students.
 It was a distinctively university au- dience that gathered in Hendrie hall last night to listen to the masterly com- memorative address on the late Dean Francis wayIand. of the law depart ment of Yale. delivered by Dean Will liam C. Robinson. of the law depart ment of the Catholic University of America. President Hadley. Dean Rog- CTS. of the law department. and large delegation of the faculty of Yale were present. All wore their gowns, and many of the seniors of the Law school were also attired in scholastic gar ments. As this gathering of noted men filed into the hall, with President Had ley and Dean Robinson leading, the ef- feet was distinetively that of the digni- fled side of university life.
 Dean Robinson is known to the pres ent students of the law department mainly by his celebrated work on ele- mentary law, and the hall was filled with students who were anxious to gain first-hand impression of the man whose writings they had studied. There were many of the general public present, for the fact that Dean Robin son was so long associated with the late Dean Wayland in professorial work, combined with Dean Robinson's repu- tation as a speaker and legal author ! ity, made the address one of much inn port.
 President Hadley introduced the speaker and said; We are here to- night among surroundings that are themselves commemorative of the man 1 whose memory we honor. This build ing and all that it represents are the memorials of his life and his labors."
 Dean Robinson was feeling speaker, and his soft-voiced, conversational tone was distinctively pleasing. He said, in part: If 1 supposed that Francis Way land had ceased to exist should have but little cause to speak here. I be- lieve he still lives and in some sphere not necessarily remote he urges for ward those enterprises that were all ways so much part of his being. It is not given to all men to be appreciated in their lifetime, and too often it is not until they die that we appreciate them and realize how noble they were. It was not so with Francis Wayland. He did not wear his heart upon his sleeve, but our instinct quickly penetrated to his intellectual and spiritual self, and we discerned what manner of man he was. Nothing human was aloof to him. Among jurists, statesmen, leaders of society and among the young he was equally at ease"
 l Dean Robinson referred touchingly to his intimacy with the late Dean Way 1 land that stretched over a period of l twenty years. He described his ap- pearance as being that of one of those 1 favored men in whom something of the nobility of the soul seems to be im- ' verted to the peculiar fitness for scho- lastic work that was the birthright of l Dean Wayland. He described the life at Brown university in the second quar- 1 ter of the last century, when Dean 1 Wayland's father was president of that university. Dean Robinson's sketch of < the beginnings of American literature { was especially apt and he pointed out the inspiration that a youth of the mold of Dean Wayland would find in such an age. He said that when Dean Wayland entered Brown in the class of 1S46 he found himself iii touch with the new thought that was entering university life from the great outer world.
 The speaker dwelt at some length on the advantages and inspiration that his subject undoubtedly drew from such surroundings Then Dean Robinson 1 told of incidents in the life of Francis l Wayland that amply bore out this as sumption The history of his organiza- l ton of the lew department of Yale and his crowning success in bringing to the high standard it had attained at the time of his death was told in the vivid. colorful manner that marked Dean ' ID ..|- T