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lished itself in several departments of edu cation as a pioneer university of the West, having a large and constantly growing influ ence in the intellectual and moral progress of the country. Its founders were men of high principle and broad views, leaders in thought, and prominent in the business and professional circles of St. Louis. At its head as President, and in later years as Chancellor

also, was the Rev. William G. Eliot, D.D., of venerated memory. The first Chancellor was Joseph G. Hoyt, of Exeter, N. H., a man equally remark able for his scholarly attainments, his broad views of the higher education, and his executive ability, and whose early death was deeply lamented. Prof. William Chauvenet, LL D., famed throughout the United States as a mathema tician, the author of treatises on " Plane and Spherical Trigo nometry," " Spherical and Practical Astron omy," and " Elemen SAMUEL tary Geometry," was called to the chan cellorship in 1860, and continued in that office until a short time before his death in 1870. In January, 1860, the Board of Directors of Washington University appointed a com mittee to take into consideration the subject of establishing a Law Department in the Uni versity. The Committee was composed of Samuel Treat, Thomas T. Gantt, John M. Krum, and Henry Hitchcock. On the 19th of March, 1860, the Com mittee, through Judge Krum and Mr. Hitchcock, submitted a lengthy report rec-

ommending the establishment of a Law De partment. In this they said : — •' It is believed that the proper conduct of such a department, wherein should be taught the prin ciples of law, not alone as they are embodied in statutes or expounded in text-books, but as the broad expressions of truth, justice, and order among men and nations, might well exercise a beneficial influence, and even impart a higher tone to the entire in stitution." The recommenda tions of the Committee were approved by the Board, and it was re solved to put the new department into prac tical operation as soon as possible. But 1860 was a mo mentous year to the American people. The mutterings of the approaching storm were already heard; and the dark days of the civil war which followed, disastrous to all interests in a bor der State like Mis souri, put a stop for the time being to fur ther efforts towards TREAT. opening the proposed law school. The war was scarcely over before the efforts, so inopportunely suspended, were renewed; and in 1867 the Directors adopted an ordinance establishing the Law Depart ment of Washington University, which was thereafter called, and has ever. since been known as, the St. Louis Law School. The first Faculty included Rev. William G. Eliot, D.D., President; William Chauvenet, LL.D., Chancellor; Hon. Samuel Treat, Judge of the United States District Court, with Mr. Alexander Martin as his assistant; Hon. Nathaniel Holmes, then Justice of the