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those few who have found in the law more at the Yale Law School in 1876, after pur than a means of livelihood and more than suing special studies in International Law for a year or two abroad. Although his a technical science, — who find in its liter ature and the lives of its leaders a means of special branch is an honor study, not being culture and of recreation. His courses in required of any but candidates for a high rank, the exercises are well attended and fol Equity and Torts are made especially inter esting by his careful citations of cases, which lowed with interest. Professor Woolsey aims to give particular attention to questions of are always appropriate and instructive. William K. Townsend, D.C.L., " Edward present interest in International relations.

The Faculty is as a J. Phelps Professor" whole, as well as indi of Contracts and Ad vidually, peculiarly ef miralty Jurisprudence, ficient. The division a graduate of Yale in of labor is such that the Class of 1871, re each professor is able ceived his legal educa to employ himself in tion in the Yale School, those lines for which taking his degree of he is by taste and abil D.C.L. in 1880, some ity especially qualified. time after admission Whatever the emi to the bar. He is an nence of any of its unusually enthusiastic members in public or and energetic man, a political life, they have thoroughly practical not been chosen on and successful lawyer that account, but for and instructor. At their legal ability and present he is Corpo scholarship. But their ration Counsel of the success is greater than City of New Haven. can be accounted for Professor Townsend, by even legal ability whose subjects are and scholarship, and such as appeal more its reason is to be strongly than many of found in the personal the others to the in FRANCIS WAYLAND. enthusiasm which they terest of the students, bring to their work; takes great pains to emphasize the more practical points and to in fact, the distinctive peculiarity of the develop each topic fully by the citation and school is the generous disposition of the discussion of leading and recent cases, and professors, not only in the routine work, succeeds to a remarkable degree, not only but also in friendly aid and suggestion out in guiding his classes to the knowledge of side the class-room. facts, but also in arousing among all the Since the gentlemen who are now in students a hearty enthusiasm for their charge of the school assumed its manage professional work. ment, and through their efforts, two impor Theodore S. Woolsey, M.A., Professor of tant changes have been made by which its International Law, a son of ex-President present location and its library have been Woolsey, is the only member of the Faculty gained. The school occupies the whole upper who has not been in active practice. He floor of the County Court-house, a handsome was graduated at Yale College in 1872, and building completed in 1873 at a cost of 33