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his lectures were necessarily suspended. Judge Lowell has a wonderfully accurate legal mind, and his lectures resembled his written opinions in that they were models of exact and clear statement which expressed important things and omitted trivial matters. He had a rather curious way of giving cita tions, and one which could hardly be com mended. After the discussion of some topic, he was quite likely to say, " This principle was first laid down in Jones v. Smith, some where in the 10th or 12th Wallace, I am not sure which, but you can find it by looking in the index of cases." In the fall of 1883 Judge Dwight Foster, who had been the lecturer on Equity from the opening of the school, was compelled to give up his work, and- on April 18, 1884, his death deprived the school of one of its ablest lecturers. Mr. Foster was born in Worces ter in 1828, and was graduated from Yale College in 1848 at the head of his class. In 1860, when but thirty-two years old, he was elected Attorney-General of Massachusetts, and held the office four years. Those were trying times for persons in authority; but that Mr. Foster was equal to the situation was universally conceded, and upon his retire ment from the office Governor Andrew ad dressed a letter to him which contained the following language : " The separation has been looked forward to by me with keen regret, and I feel no less its consummation. On your serenity, clearness, firmness, and in telligent judgment both as a lawyer and friend, I have relied with the utmost con fidence. Your advice, while always healing and pacific, has been always true-headed and manly. The more public professional efforts you have made, as well as the general con duct of your department, have all added new honors to an office heretofore filled by able men, some of them of unsurpassed capacity and fame." In 1866 Governor Bullock ap pointed Mr. Foster an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, which position he re signed three years later and returned to the practice of his profession. Judge Foster's

practice at the bar and his services on the bench had given him a reputation as one of the first equity lawyers in Massachusetts, and it was this fact which made his selection by Mr. Hillard to lecture upon that subject eminently proper. Francis Wharton, LL.D., another of the original lecturers, was constantly connected with the school as lecturer on the Conflict of Laws up to the time of his death, which occurred Feb. 21, 1889. He was born in 1 82 1, and was graduated from Yale College in 1839. He was professor of English Liter ature in Kenyon College from 1856 to 1863, when he was ordained a minister of the Epis copal Church, and made rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookline. He was at one time con nected with the Theological School at Cam bridge. He was an author of legal works whose reputation was world-wide. Among them were "Treatise on Criminal Law," "The Law of Agency and Agents," " Trea tise on the Law of Homicide," " Treatise on the Conflict of Laws," and " Standard Digest of International Law." He was a joint writer of a " Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence." In 1884 the school was removed from Bromfield Street to 10 Ashburton Place. This building had been formerly the resi dence of Mr. Augustus H. Fiske, who for many years was a very prominent lawyer in Boston with an extensive practice. The structure was entirely remodelled. The base ment is devoted to lounging and dressing rooms. The first floor is occupied by the Dean's office, one room of the Library, and a large Lecture Hall, with a seating capacity of some two hundred. The second floor is given up entirely to the Library, and the third floor has two large recitation rooms, which are also used by the students for their law club meetings. There are also rooms on the fourth floor which are used by the law clubs. If the Boston Law School is a success, it owes that result to its present Dean, the Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, more than to any other man. Mr. Bennett was born in Man