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Law of the Domestic Relations and Criminal Law; Nathaniel C. Moak, Lecturer on Books and Judicial Systems; James W. Eaton, Jr., Professor of Elementary Law, Wills and Torts; Maurice J. Lewi, M.D., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. William L. Learned, the present President of the Faculty, who has held that post for ten years, is one of the few men on the bench whom Mr. Bishop

would consider capa ble of being a "jurist." He has been for twenty years a Supreme Court Judge, and for fifteen years of that time pre siding judge of the general term of the Supreme Court for the Third Department, — the intermediate ap pellate court, — and has long enjoyed the reputation of unusual learning and temper ate and sound judg ment in the law, and of liberal general cul ture. He is a skilled civil lawyer, and for merly gave a course of lectures on the civil law in the school, WILLIAM L. which was unfortu nately crowded out by the exigencies of the one-year system. No resident of Albany is more beloved and respected than this excellent and useful citi zen, who in his life of sixty-eight years has paid his debt to society many times over. Probably no other resident here is so much interested in the cause of general instruction and is in authority in so many educational institutions. He adds to his extensive legal acquirements a general cultivation in letters and the charm of polished discourse. Al though his judicial labors are exceedingly onerous, his time and talents have always

been at the service of his State and city, and his hand has always been open in good works for the elevation and improvement of the community. Mr. Hiram E. Sickels has for eighteen years discharged with marked ability the duties of reporter of the Court of Appeals, and has edited seventy-one volumes of those famous reports. This experience alone is enough to make a learned lawyer of any man, and his elaborate and profoundly learned lectures on Evidence corroborate the repu tation which would thus be inferred. He has taught this branch in the school with dis tinguished ability and success for fourteen years. Mr. Sickels is justly a favorite of the judges of his court, and he is greatly es teemed in the com munity for his manly qualities and his cour teous demeanor. Mr. Matthew Hale and Mr. Nathaniel C Moak are active lead ers of the Albany Bar, LEARNED. and have a national reputation. Their business is so engrossing that they are not able to give extended courses of lectures. Mr. Hale formerly gave many more, succeeding Judge Parker, and immediately preceding the writer as lecturer on Domestic Relations and Criminal Law. He is still young, — not above sixty (although it was judicially de cided the other day in England that any one above fifty is " aged"), — and has the most winning personal qualities, as well as learning and culture quite remarkable in so brilliant an advocate. Mr. Moak is about fifty-seven years of age, and is one of the most cele