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UNION COLLEGE OF LAW, CHICAGO.

HROUGH the liberality of citizens of Chicago, and more especially of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, the University of Chicago was opened for instruction in the fall of 1858. The Union College of Law, conceived and liberally patronized by the Hon. Thomas Hoyne, was founded in 1859, as the Law Department of the University of Chicago. At Metropolitan Hall, on Sept. 21, 1859, the Hon. Thomas Drummond presided at the dedicatory exercises of this Law School, and the now venerable David Dudley Field delivered an address which, indeed, dignifies the school's origin. The prophecy then made by the speaker, that "whatever light is here kindled will shine through township and village, from the Alleghany to the Rocky Mountains," is already reality.

There were but three Law Schools west of the Alleghany Mountains before this one, so far as the writer knows; namely, one at Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1833, one at Louisville, Ky., founded in October, 1846, and one at Lebanon, Tenn., founded in 1847. The Law Department of the University at Ann