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 Nevertheless, this solitary student (J. P. Tarbell of Boston), upon whom depended such an undreamed-of future, furnished the “horrible example” that caused some furious thinking on the part of the Corporation. They had been watching the progress of their experiment with anxious care and an increased understanding of its needs. Two years before this date they had realized that the Royall Professor must be transferred from the College and take an active part in building up the school. As Chief Justice Parker was unable to do this, his resignation was accepted. When Stearns was reduced to a single disciple, he too left the field. With his departure, the mistake of a fee-supported chair of law was corrected, and the University Professorship was discontinued. Simultaneously, as a powerful aid to these reforms, came the election of Josiah Quincy, the first great business president of the College; and the teaching of law at Harvard entered upon its third phase.

The new era was ushered in by the enthusiasm and munificence of Nathan Dane, of Beverly, a member of the class of 1778 and a distinguished legal writer. His studies had led him to the conviction that the law could be taught not only as a theory but as a science—almost as a philosophy. He saw the possibilities of Parker’s idea if put into the right hands; and he gave ten thousand dollars to found a new professorship of law, pro-