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 a most distinguished choice among her graduates. Yet the appointment proved in some ways a disappointment. Owing to his extended duties on circuit, Parker was able to lecture only during the summer term of college. In the words of Dr. A. P. Peabody of the class of 1826, “The income of the Royall Professorship was barely sufficient to pay for a course of twelve or more lectures to each successive senior college class. Judge Parker’s course comprised such facts and features of the common and statute law as a well-educated man ought to know, together with an analysis and exposition of the Constitution of the United States. His lectures were clear, strong, and impressive; were listened to with great satisfaction, and were full of materials of practical interest and value. He bore a reputation worthy of his place in the line of Massachusetts chief justices; and the students, I think, fully appreciated the privilege of having for one of their teachers a man who had no recognized superior at the bar or on the bench.”

To much the same effect Sidney Willard testifies: “I heard a great part of Judge Parker’s course of lectures in what was then the Philosophy Chamber in Harvard Hall. They were written in a perspicuous style, were listened to with much satisfaction, and contained much useful information, adapted to all literary and in-