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grandfather sat in the Cabinet of Washing ton. Their maternal grandfather was John C. Spencer, one of New York's greatest jur ists and the reviser of her statutes. The sons of such fathers have not failed to live up to the traditions of their line. And to day the citizens of Buffalo estimate as their best the grandsons of De Witt Clinton. The Clintons have not given the benefit

of their name alone to the school; they have given it their time and their atten tion. Both of them were among its found ers, both are among its most energetic workers. In writing of the lectures of Spencer Clinton " On the Law of Property," criticism becomes of necessity praise. The sagacity of De Witt Clinton speaks in the practical turn he gives to the most abstruse legal propositions; the clear comprehension of John C. Spencer, in his lucid statement of what those propo LE ROY sitions are. George Clinton lectures upon the subject, which he has made his spe cialty, — the subject of Admiralty Law. As well considered as are the lectures of his brother, they are worthy of as high praise. Conkling might have fathered them; Miller might have acknowledged them without discredit. Of the work of James Frazer Gluck the public is soon to judge in his book on Cor porations about to be published. Of the character of his work in the school an esti mate can perhaps be gathered from the facts of his life. Comparatively a young man,

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Mr. Gluck has already won such prizes as few gain at his time of life. He graduated at Cornell University at the head of his class, in 1874. He became a partner in one of the most important firms of Western New York in 1877. A trustee of Cornell Uni versity in 1883, he was a prominent candi date for its presidency soon after. In the Buffalo School he shows those marked ele ments of strength which the facts of his past life warrant. Mr. Moot, formerly the partner of Judge Lewis, of whom we have already spoken, is a man to whom no college gave her train ing, but whose educa tion was acquired at that better school,— the family hearth stone. A countryboy learning as best he could, a teacher of a village school, a stu dent supporting him self while reading law with Judge Edwards, and at thirty-five a lawyer with the repu tation of having suc cessfully argued more PARKER cases before the New York Court of Ap peals than any man of his years in the State, — this is the record of which his friends are proud. This is the name and prestige he brings to the Law School. Besides these men whom we have men tioned are others of no less merit. These are Mr. LeRoy Parker, the Vice-Dean; Mr. John G. Milburn; and Mr. Tracy C. Becker, the instructor in Criminal Law. Mr. LeRoy Parker, the Vice-Dean, a grad uate of Hamilton College and of the Law School of Michigan University, was appointed to that office in 1889, because of the frequent