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is criticized by some as being al
most exclusively a systematizer OF
the case system" all his later
work reveals intense interest 10
the teaching and explanation Of
this law In 1912 he issued a
mastery analysis of four aspects
of the development of the United
States and its foreign policy IN
der the title Federalism, Democ-
racy Imperialism and Expansion" a."
In 1924 he collected various es-
says in a volume entitled Inter
national Law and Some Current
Illusions" which constitute re-
Election of the impression left by
the Post War period on man Of
learning and integrity.
At this point, I would ask you
to pardon a few remarks about
myself:
In returning from my labors as
Secretary of the Niagara Falls
Mediation Conference between
Mexico and the United States, 1
enrolled in the course of lectures
given by Prof. Moore at Kent
Hall, the Dean of that Faculty at
the time being Harlan P. Stone,
now one Of the Justices of the
Federal Supreme Court 1t was
during my work there and my al
most daily contact with Prof.
Moore, and subsequently when l
was accepted as a member of his
Glass, that first came into close
touch with this rare mind and we
were joined by ties Of intellect and
friendship highly fiattering to me.
During the last years that he held
this professorship, DR.. Moore had
an Office adjoining and communi-
eating with the monumental Uni
versity Library. There the door
was always open to his pupils,
who were all his friends This
good nina and great teacher lived
in these surroundings in the midst
of an enormous tumble of books
and papers that were scattered
over tables and chairs and stacked
on shelves up to the ceiling, hav-
ing thus exercised for more than
thirty-three years this lofty pro-
fession of teaching, which really
means giving to youth part Of
ones own life together with the
fruits of ones experience.
When the Law Faculty of CO.
lumbia University decided in Feb
ruary 1921 to give courses on Ar
gentinian and Brazilian Civil Law
and honored me with the task, it
was Prof. Moore who encouraged
me as a beginner with his prestige
and authority in the speech with
which he placed me in possession
Of the chair, taking advantage of
the occasion to display once more
the great sympathy and admira-
tion he has always had for the
juridical institutions of our coun-
try.
In discussing from the chair
with erudition and judiciously but
without circumlocution such lively
problems of the day at that time
as the freedom of the seas, non
intervention, the Monroe Doctrine,
neutrality, international arbitra-
ton, the situations arising from
the territorial expansion of the
United States, Pan-Americanism
etc, John Bassett Moore gave
fine opportunity to group of
young men to acquire an unusual
training that has subsequently
been taken advantage of by the
United States government in fill
ing positions Of responsibility in
its diplomatic or consular service,
and it might be added that these
posts are traditionally held by
men of recognized distinction,
such as the present representative
of the United States, who honors
us with his presence by taking
part with US in this act of homage
to one of his illustrious country
men.
There is nothing more appropri-
ate on this auspicious occasion, at
time when America has given
the world an example of modera-
tion and pacifsm and when we
have here with us men who have
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