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Evarts, Cortlandt Parker, Rufus King, and The formal, public inauguration of the other celebrated lawyers, on the Special school occurred Oct. 16, 1867. The inau Committee for the Relief of the Supreme gural address, delivered by Hon. Samuel Court of the United States, and prepared Treat, LL.D., Judge of the United States the majority report which was adopted by District Court at St Louis, was an erudite the association after a learned and exhaus compendium of the history of law: Judge Treat was deeply interested in the tive debate, and has been the basis of all their subsequent action looking to the relief ■ development of the school, and was for sev eral years President of the Faculty. of the Supreme Court. In 1887 Mr. Hitchcock, on invitation, read He retained his connection with the insti a paper before the New York State Bar tution until recently, when failing health Association on "American State Constitu compelled his retirement from the bench tions," in recognition of which he was and from the active duties of life. A gentle man of the "old school," a lawyer of high elected an honorary member by that asso ciation; and in the same year, as orator of attainments, and a judge of unimpeachable the American Bar Association, he delivered integrity and unswerving devotion to duty. an address on " General Corporation Laws." Judge Treat has left upon the St. Louis Law Professor Bry.ce, in his remarkable work, School, as well as upon the members of the "The American Commonwealth," has given bar who practised before him and the com extracts f»om both of these papers. munity in which he lived, the imprint of a In March of this year Mr. Hitchcock de remarkable personality. livered at the University of Michigan an The school was organized without endow address on "Constitutional Development in ment of any kind. By arrangement of the the United States as influenced by Chief- Board of Directors of the University, certain Justice Marshall," following Judge Cooley of the necessary expenses were to be paid in a series of five lectures by distinguished out of the University treasury; all others jurists on the Constitutional History of the were dependent on the income from tuition fees. No salary was provided for the pro United States. He was the organizer of the Civil Service fessors. Nor was there any prospect of Reform Association of Missouri, was for pecuniary reward for them, save in the several years its president, and has been chance that there might be a surplus from one of the leaders of national note in that tuition fees after paying expenses. How slight such a chance seemed at that time movement. As professor, dean, and provost of the must be apparent. Theirs was indeed "a Law School, Mr. Hitchcock brought to bear labor of love," — love for the profession, and desire for its advancement. the ability, learning, and earnestness of pur That the Faculty entered upon their work pose characteristic of all his work. His fa vorite topics are Constitutional Law, Equity, in this spirit is emphasized by their action and Corporation Law; but he has at different when, at the end of the second year, a prob times taught Mercantile Law, Evidence, Real able surplus of jSi,7QO having been reported Property, Corporation Law, and Equity, and by the Dean, the entire sum was, by unani he still lectures each year on the Law of mous vote, appropriated for the increase of Wills and Successions. the library. Nor had the school at the outset a single He is, in all things, scholarly, thorough, profound. He never permits the student to book to constitute the beginning of a law skim the surface of his subject, but takes library. Yet, by the end of the first year, him to its bottom, and by explanation and the library comprised four hundred and eighty-three volumes, which were obtained example lays the subject fully before him.