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24 members of the School are eligible for membership in the Association. Its general meeting was held at Cambridge on Nov. 5, 1886. The membership of the Association now numbers eight hundred and eighteen. For the current year it has made a gift of $1,000, to increase the instruction in Constitutional Law, and another of $100, for a prize essay to be competed for by members of the third-year class. Similar grants for these purposes are to be made by the Association yearly.

In describing the progress of the school since 1870, we have referred only to the work of Professor Langdell. Those who have had any knowledge of the school during this period need not be told to how great an extent its prosperity should be ascribed to the co-operation of others who from time to time have been members of the Faculty. Of none of the instructors is this more true than of the present professors, who have devoted themselves to the cause of legal education with never-flagging zeal. The tact and good judgment which they have displayed in dealing with the difficult problems of administration, and the ability—nearly approaching genius—with which they have put the new method of instruction into practice, have alone made it possible to carry through the changes at the school, and to obtain the moral and financial support from without which have brought the school to the high degree of prosperity which it now enjoys.

After Judge Parker's resignation, Nathaniel Holmes, formerly one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Missouri, was appointed Royall Professor; and later, Charles S. Bradley, formerly Chief Justice of Rhode Island and a lawyer of great ability, became Bussey Professor. During this period Edmund H. Bennett, N. St. John Green, John Lathrop, Benjamin F. Thomas, and New England's greatest lawyer, Benjamin R. Curtis, were lecturers at the school. O. W. Holmes, Jr., held a professorship for a short time before his appointment to the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts in 1883.

The "Catalogue of the Students of the Law School of Harvard University, 1817—1887," which was prepared by John H. Arnold, Esq., its efficient librarian, under the inspiration of the Harvard Law School Association, contains five thousand two hundred and sixty-three names. A glance at its pages will show to how great an extent men prominent in public and professional life have received their early training at this school. Among those now holding offices under the Federal Government may be mentioned the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Gray of the United States Supreme Court; the Secretaries of War, of the Treasury, and of the Navy; Senators Evarts, Hoar, Eustis, Chandler, and Gray, who will soon be joined by Senators-elect Walcott and Higgins; the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Davis of the Court of Claims; Walter L. Bragg of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Judge Cox of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the United States District Judges, Ogden Hoffman of California, Addison Brown of New York, Henry B. Brown of Michigan, Edward C. Billings of Louisiana; and, of the territorial courts, Judges Twiss of Utah, and Knowles and Blake of Montana.

On the highest State Courts the school is represented in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Iowa, by the Chief Justices, and in New York, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Ohio, by associate justices. Five of the seven judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts were students at the school.

To the Dominion of Canada the school has furnished the present Minister of Finance, Charles H. Tupper, as well as judges, and many members of Parliament; and to the Hawaiian Islands, the Chief Justice and Judge M'Cully of the Supreme Court.

We should expect to find the names of leaders of the Boston Bar now, as in the days of Rufus Choate, among the former students of the Harvard Law School; and in other cities the school is no less ably represented than there. Take, for example, New York,