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Cady Herrick, Albany, ex-District Attorney (and now Corporation Counsel); Grenville A. Tremain, Albany, deceased; Zerah S. Westbrook, Amsterdam, N. Y., County Judge; Wm. T. Vilas, Madison, Wis., exPostmaster-General; David A. Thompson, President "Nineteenth Century Club," New York City; Chas. Theo. Boone, San Fran cisco, author of several legal text-books;

Andrew S. Draper, Albany, late Judge of the Court of Alabama Claimsand present Su perintendent of Pub lic Instruction of the State; Alton B. Par ker, Kingston, N. Y., Judge Second Divi sion Court of Appeals; D. Willers, Jr., Varick, N. Y., ex-Secretary of State; Joseph H. Willard, Captain U. S. Engineers; Lewis A. Barker, Bangor, Me.; Tracy C. Becker, Pro fessor in Buffalo Law School; Chas. B. Hubbell, New York City, Member of the Board of Education; Adelbert Moot, Buffalo, N. Y.; Ward McAllister, Jr., New York City;1 Norton Chase, Al bany, State Senator; John V. L. Pruyn, Jr., Albany, N. Y.; E. Corning Townsend, Pro fessor in Buffalo Law School; Miles Beach, Judge of the New York City Common Pleas; T. C. Callicott, editor of the " Albany Times;" R. H. McClellan, Galena, Ill.; St. Clair McKelway, editor of the " Brooklyn Eagle" and a Regent of the State; Irving G. Vann, Syra cuse, N. Y., Judge Second Division Court of Appeals; George A. Madill, Professor in the St. Louis Law School; Redfield Proctor, ex- j

Governor of Vermont, and Secretary of War, I have made no attempt to note the crowd of M. C.'s. The building now owned and occupied by the Law School is situated on the very finest block in Albany, next to the Capitol, surrounded by the best private residences in the city. It was iormerly a church, and is very well adapted to the purposes of the school. It is two sto ries high, — the first occupied by a spacious room for the library and for study, exami nations and moot courts; the second by the large and lofty au dience-room used for the lectures. It is hoped that some of the odor of the sanctuary still clings to the building; at all events, the standard of moral ity is high, and the students are uniformly well behaved, both in school and out. In obtaining this edifice the school owed much to the strenuous ef forts and liberality of the late Thomas W. Olcott, president of the Board of Trustees, and to some of his associates. The school library is not extensive, but is well selected; and the nearness of the State Library dis penses with the necessity of a large collec tion at the school. At the dedication of this building in 1879, Judge Parker felici tously remarked : " Let it be dedicated with all due ceremony to its future purposes, second only in sacredness of character to that for which it has heretofore been used. Reminded by the impressive and undying maxims inscribed on your walls, that you 1 Is this the great leader of the " Four Hundred "? | are here to learn to follow implicitly the I await a reply in suspense.