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432 necessary absences of Judge Daniels at terms of court. To this position he has brought distinction. Together with his position of Vice-Dean, he has for two years held the Chair of Elementary Law, and Contracts, and has lectured four times a week to the students. In each of these positions he has much to do with directing the management and instruction of the school, and this he does with an exemplary faithfulness and care which already have reaped their harvest of deserved success.

Mr. Milburn is only an occasional lecturer at the school. He is a member of the firm of Rogers, Locke, and Milburn, whose railroad and corporation business takes him to all parts of the Union. It is to be regretted that he can spare time only for the few discourses he is able to give. In these, under the title of "The Theory of Law Codes," he speaks in a graceful way of the theory of Jurisprudence.

Of Mr. Becker, we may say that he was for several years in the office of the public prosecuting attorney, and has since then taken a high stand at the bar. Recently his name has become prominent in connection with the case of Kemmler, the first murderer sentenced to be executed by electricity. He was appointed by the Supreme Court a referee to take testimony in the proceedings to test the constitutionality of the New York Electrical Execution Act. As the prosecuting attorney, and as such referee, he has shown a mind possessing much more than ordinary culture, added to remarkable powers of analytic thought. To this school he has given his time and money with an open hand.

In addition to the topics already spoken of, instruction was given upon the subject of "Marriage and Divorce" by Mr. C. T. Chester, who distinguished himself at Yale College, where he was the salutatorian of his class, and a leading member of the Society of the Skull and Bones, and also at the Columbia Law School, and has since risen to prominence at the bar. Mr. E. C. Townsend, the secretary and treasurer of the school, a graduate of the Albany Law School, has in charge Domestic Relations; Transmission of Estates is lectured upon by Mr. Edward L. Parker, a graduate of Cornell University, a specialist doing much of the real-estate business of the city of Buffalo; Agency and Partnership, by Mr. H. H. Seymour, the Commissioner of the Supreme Court for the examination of students for the bar; Special Proceedings, by Mr. S. T. Viele, a lawyer of twenty years' standing; Manufacturing Corporations, by Mr. C. B. Wheeler, an authority on the Act of 1848; and Practice in Civil Action, by Mr. Charles P. Norton.

With these facilities and by these men the school was founded, and entered upon its first year in October, 1887. Its curriculum contemplated a course of study for two years, with a third year to be added as soon as there should be a demand for it.

To the Juniors, or first-year men, was appointed the study of such fundamental subjects as Rights as they appear in Contracts, Wrongs as they appear in Torts and Crimes, the Law governing the Relation of Families, and the Law and Nature of Estates in Real Property. To the Seniors, or advanced class, the more advanced subjects, such as Evidence, Equity, the more complex kind of Contracts, Admiralty, Corporations, and Constitutional Law. The subjects studied number twenty-three in all, under the guidance of a lecture corps of twenty members. The hours for lectures are made with reference to the usefulness of the students in the offices to which they go when the lecture hours are over. The Junior lecture hours are between nine and eleven in the morning; the Senior, the last hour in the morning, and the last hour in the afternoon. The general rule is, that a lecture is given on each subject once a week, though lectures are given more frequently than this on the subjects of Contracts, Elementary Law, and Practice. There is no fixed method of instruction, each instructor adopting the course which he con-