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Rh grandfather sat in the Cabinet of Washington. Their maternal grandfather was John C. Spencer, one of New York's greatest jurists and the reviser of her statutes. The sons of such fathers have not failed to live up to the traditions of their line. And today 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 attention. Both of them were among its founders, 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 propositions are. George Clinton lectures upon the subject, which he has made his specialty,—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.

LE ROY PARKER.

Of the work of James Frazer Gluck the public is soon to judge in his book on Corporations about to be published. Of the character of his work in the school an estimate can perhaps be gathered from the facts of his life. Comparatively a young man, 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 University in 1883, he was a prominent candidate for its presidency soon after. In the Buffalo School he shows those marked elements 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 training, but whose education was acquired at that better school,—the family hearth stone. A country-boy learning as best he could, a teacher of a village school, a student supporting himself while reading law with Judge Edwards, and at thirty-five a lawyer with the reputation of having successfully argued more cases before the New York Court of Appeals 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 mentioned 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 graduate of Hamilton College and of the Law School of Michigan University, was appointed to that office in 1889, because of the frequent