Connecticut western news., 1920-08-05
LITCHFIELD'S 2OOth
 ANNIVERSARY
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devoted to celebrating the establish ment of the Litchfield Law school in 1784, and the Litchfeld Female aca- demy founded in 1927. Hon. George M. Woodruff presided and introduc- ed the speakers Hon. Simeon E.
 Baldwin, formerly governor of
 Connecticut and chief justice of the supreme court of errors, gave an address on "The First Law School in America" and Mrs. George Maynard Minor, president of the General National society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, spoke on Sarah Pierce, the Pioneer of Woman.s Higher Education" The Community playhouse, at which the exercises were held, was crowded.
 Among other, things that Governor Baldwin said were these introduc- tory remarks, giving bit of the history of the founding of the first law school.
 Tapping Reeve, a graduate of Princeton of the class of '63, and afterwards tutor there for three years, took under his charge the first students who were to head the list of the graduates of the Litch- field Law School. He was then forty years old; an ardent and i'm petuous son of sturdy New England stock. His father, Congregational minister in Vermont, lived to be 104 years old. The son, though not destined for such extreme longevity, had strong constitution both of mind and body. He was of the kind who do their life's work with dash and feeling-who wear out, but never rust out. After a quarter of a century of growing usefulness, his voice wore out, under the strain of daily lectures, but he was still able to give them in shrill whisper un- til 1920, when he finally retired at the age of 79, dying three years later.
 Associated with him in the work l of instruction after 1798 was James | Gould, man of even greater mark, who was graduated from Yale Col lege in 1791, and conducted the | school alone from 1920 to 1883, i when it passed out of existence. It l had always been conducted as a purely private enterprise. It had | never had or wanted the legal stat US of a corporation.
 Monday was of the same delight ful weather conditions, and the num- Der of those present was even larger than on Sunday. It was known as ! State day, made prominent by the | presence of the present Governor, Marcus H. Holcomb, and other state | officials and former high officers of | the state.
 The first episode of the day was the reception to Governor Holcomb and staff with full military honors in the Playhouse. At Il o'clock the parade started from the Playhouse, composed as follows: Second Com | pany, Governors Foot Guard, First | Company, Governors Foot Guard, | New Haven Grays, Putnam Phalanx, Governor Holcomb, staff and special i guests in automobiles.
 The line of march was West | street to Meadow, Meadow to Vest over, Westover to South, South to | ACApo 1dESIu, LdSI street to IN Orth, | to head of North street; counter march down North street past re- viewing stand, down West street to the park where luncheon was served. 1
 At 2 in the afternoon at the Playhouse addresses were given bv Governor Holcomb, former Cover nor Frank B. Weeks of Middletown. | Hon. Thomas F. Reilly, former con- gressman and now sheriff of New Haven county, and Major John L. Gilson, major of the Second Com | pany Governors Foot Guard. At the | same hour at the Congregational church addresses were delivered bv Lyman Beecher Stowe, great-grand- son of Rev. Lyman Beecher and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe. and by Congressman James P. Glynn and Senator Frank B. Brandegee.
 At 4:30 o'clock a regimental re- view took place upon the green. This was the first affair of its kind ever to take place within the state of Connecticut and was attended with great interest by hundreds of spec-