The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-27

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 Degree IL. B., cum laude. Hubert Berlley Lewis.
 Degree IL. B., cum 1aude, Guy Pat ten.
 Degree IL. B., um laude, Lon K.
 HONoRs IN SECOND YEAR CLASS. George Stanleigh Arnold.
 Seth Weaver Baldwin. James Noel Howard Campbell.
 Birdsey Erskine Case.
 John Coleman Durey.
 John William Joy. Charles Asaph Roberts,
 Matt Savage Walton. Norman Well
 HoNoRs IN FIRST YEAR CLASS. William Brewster Ely. Bernard Israel Kamen. George Sharp Munsons
 George Elton Parks. Frederick Richard Ryan, Thomas Day Thacher. George Slingerland Van Schaiek Charles Herbert Woods. .t Of these honor men, Jente, Case, Ely, | Kamen. and Ryan are New Haven boys. Chung Hui Wang is the first China i man at Yale to receive the D. c. l.. de- gree. He was graduated from the uni versity of Iien .Tsin, China, in 1899, and received his M. L. degree at Yale in 1903 with high honor.
 The Phelps Montgomery prize estab- lished by Phelps Montgomery, A. B., | IL. B., in 1904, of $50, to that member of the third year class who receives the | highest marks at his annual examlna- l tiOn, William Mills MaItbie of Granby. The Jewell prize (established by the I Hon. Marshall Jewell, M. A., in 1S7l) of class who receives the highest marks at his annual examination, Birds0y Err skine Case of this city.
 The Betts prize (established by Fred 1 eric H. Betts, IL. D., in 1ST5) of $50,
 to that. member of the first year class who receives the highest marks at his annual examination, George Sharp Munson, 2. of. .Williamsport, Pa. and ! Thomas Day Thacher of New York city. The Wayland prizes (established by Professor Francis Way1and in 1S99l, one of $50, one of $50 and one of $20, to lthose three members of the Yale Kent X bate are pronounced first, second and I third in excellence as debaters: First, I Morris D. Sake of this city; second,
 Frederick R. Ryan. of this city, and I third, Benjamin S. Pouzzner al of New 1 Britain. Az. .~4gz%# Es After the prize oratfons were con l cluded,. President Hadley and the fell i lows of the corporation entered taking seats on the platform President Had l ley then introduced Secretary Taft I who was enthusiastically applauded.
 His address to the graduating class on 'The Administration of Criminal Law" was substantially as follows: j SECRETARY TAFT'Ss ADDRESS. I MT President, MT. Dean aud gem tlemen of the Yale Law School: One of
 the most useful results of our recent I territorial expansion for those who have had to do with uniting our new pos sessions with this country and adjust 1 ing certain of the Spanish codes which Il we found in Porto Rico and the Philip- T pines to the New American soveraig ntY has been the comparative study made i necessary Of the two great systems os law. the Roman or civil law, and the t tAnglo-Saxon, or common law. s 4 Those of us who have been fdu- 5I cated in the principles of the common law and have not extended our study
 apt to be narrow in our preiudices in favor of the common law, and are I prone to think that there is very IittlS I for us to learn from the civil law, I government iii which the hbarry of tine l Individual is held so sacred and the Il poWer$sof the government towards fhe St subject or citizen is restrained by such I careful regulations as in England, in I America or any of the popular sclf gov l ernmants for which either of those countries are responsible. ss. ,@$ :"
 But certainly when in actual prac- l tice the common law lawyer is brought to the study of the beautifully sim Et pie and exactly comprehensive lam 1 guage of the civil code governing the < rights between individuals, he begins I to feel the veneration which comes from consciously viewing the work of twenty Icenturies of jurists. and law givers, who I have been struggling during all that Iperiod to simplify and make lucid the
 that under the civil code it certainly N has become. N
 Tn the common law the spirit mani- I fested in the rule Caveat Emptor = I that every man must look after him. l self--leaVes blunt and harsh results I (Where actual and affirmative fraud is \ not eommitted9 which the civil law
 would not ameliorate by requiring one
 individual to treat the other with more \ equity, with more morality one may l say, with more care that the other shall not, by his own neglect, lose his rights. There is more of paternalism in the civil law-more care for the subject of the government---less disposition to let in- I dividuals work out their rights between
 them. The common law stands for the I utmost liberty of the individual and as
 a price of this liberty it imposes upon \ the person enjoying it the burden of \ looking out for himself."$
 \ After referring to the institution of 1.-the writ of habeas corpus trial by jury and other means of preserving the itrights of the individual against the l oppression of the government, Secretary ETaft continued:
 As these served their purposes SC lwe11 in ancient times when the battle ! for civil liberty was fought and won l the first impulse of. the American law yer is to apply them all as a panacea Ito the government and criminal pro- fcedure Of our new possessions. But fur. l ther investigations with deepening sense of responsibility for the govern
 ment of a body of people whose well i fare has been forced upon us as a sa,
 cred trust, leads to a much more con. \ Iservative attitude in respect of the
 needed changes in the existing pro. \ cedure.
 "sTriaI by jury has been adopted 1T Il Porto Rico. It has not been adopted il ! the Philippines. I do not think it tot lmuch to say, however, that it has prov. l en to be a failure thus far ill Porto Rico. The first question was in tht | Philippines, shall 1t be adopted in civi \ cases?. No civil law country, I think 4 has adopted it for this purpose. Shal I've do so? It would seem unwise. Ii
 is by no means clear that in our juris.
 prudence trial by jury in civil cases i: s an unn1ixed good.
 Young gentlemen of the graduating ! class, I welcome you into the profes sion of the law. I congratulate yol ! that your admission to the bar happen, | at Q time when the irnoortance of thorough legal education is more ap tpreciatedi than ever before, so that yo, are more thoroughly grounded in law as q science than were those of us wht came to the bar generation ago. YoI will occasionally have presented alter natives, one of assured success, whicl s if pursued is likely to dull the kael edge of the highest honor and probity the other of less promise financial. lbut leading clearly along the good olt Epath of virtue Choose the latter what
 ever your immediate loss, for you vii Sl,rS II,