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instructors we cannot accomplish what we should like, we have at least the conscious ness of doing the best we can.

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more extended mention of the founder, admits to all the courts of the State. Dur through whose large liberality the College ing this same period the Supreme Court has exists, and of its first and present principal admitted on examination and motion more professors, John Norton Pomeroy and E. than twice as many as have graduated from W. McKinstry. the school. Few men have had The graduates are rapidly pushing for such a remarkable ca ward to the front ranks reer as Serranus Clin of the profession. One ton Hastings. He was born in Jefferson is a Superior Judge, and several of them County, X. Y., Nov. 22, 1814. At the age arc Distric t Attorneys. of twenty he was prin They have done much cipal of the Norwich to overcome the stupid prejudice which once Academy, Chenango existed against the in County. He resigned this position at the stitution because, prin end ofa year, and went cipally, of the number to Indiana, where he it turned into the pro completed his legal fession. Xhe forego studies, and was ad ing figures ought to be a sufficient answer mitted to the bar. He did not immediately to any assertion that the school is over enter upon the prac tice of his profession, crowding the profes sion. Adverse criti but engaged in jour nalism, editing the cism upon the methods and results of law "Indiana Signal " dur ing the presidential schools usually comes ROBERT P. HASTINGS. campaign of 1836. In from persons who were 1837 he removed to never educated in them, know nothing about them, and who the Black Hawk Purchase; and when this will not learn anything. Suffice it to say, became the Territory of Iowa, in 1838, he that among those who are competent to judge, was chosen a member of the first legislature, there is but one opinion as to their superi and continued to be a member, either of the ority over any other means of legal education. House or Council, until 1846, when Iowa The authorities of the school have labored became a State. He was then elected a industriously and unselfishly to establish the Representative to the Twenty-ninth Con public confidence in it, and perhaps the best gress, and was, with one exception, the proof of their success is that judges and law youngest member of the House. In 1848 yers send their sons to it to be educated. he was appointed Chief-Justice of the Su We cannot claim for it many of the advanta preme Court of Iowa, but resigned at the ges possessed by the Eastern institutions; end of the year, for the purpose of going to but if for lack of means and a larger corps of California. He arrived in California during

were admitted by the Supreme Court before grad jation. Three of the earlier graduates were women, one of whom is following the •.>,:.. A '- :.-.'.-r.a :'r. 'v.- 'y'.'.'-.z-.