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hook Academy, he passed four years in the to continuously live in a metaphorical classic New York University, where he had tor Athenian temple, expounding the language college associates, such scholars as Robert of Homer to students. Amid such excel Ogden Doremus, now the world-renowned lent scholastic surroundings, young Vander chemist; George H. Houghton, the veritable poel could not refrain from becoming well Saint John of the now historic " little church prepared for a legal novitiate, and after around the corner," in New York City; dropping cap and gown with an A.B. from George H. Moore, long curator of the Lenox the top of the alphabet to crown his sur Library; William Allen Butler, now the name towards its end, he entered the law poet lawyer; Wil office of Mr. Smith liam A. Wheelock, Bryce, now retired now a great Knicker to become a social bocker banker; nestor at Newport, George J. Adlcr, and there, amid its afterwards compiler breezes, in his grand of the great German old age, to read the and English diction "North American ary bearing his Review" that his son name; Samuel Oak directs. This elder ley Vanderpoel Bryce — whenever (elder brother), long, visiting his favorite in after life, health Manhattan Club off1cer of the port of where he is Sir N e w Y 01k; and Oracle (but not the scores of other col one described in lege mates who grad Shakespeare) is often uated from the uni observed by mem bers to pause before versity at the time when it was in its the portrait of his college zenith and old pupil, and some before it became times tells how often overshadowed, and he was obliged to placed in the schol chide that pupil, far AARON J. VANDERPOEL. astic rear, by its rival, back in the forties, Columbia. Young against overstudy; so enthusiastic was Vanderpoel in delving Vanderpoel was also under the instruction of into legal first principles and tracing them a grand college faculty, which numbered at into the reports. When admitted to its head Theodore Frelinghuysen — who practice. Vanderpoel, through an argument, during the year when Vanderpoel graduated, was made a vice-presidential candidate on the attracted the attention of one of the greatest ticket with Henry Clay — and also Caleb S. nisi prius lawyers of New York City, The latter Henry the eminent professor of Logic and Nathaniel Bowditch Blunt. Rhetoric; John W. Draper, the greatest enjoyed a large and varied practice but had just been elected district attorney, which chemist of his era, who first utilized the dis covery of Daguerre toward fixing the human office proved to work a hindrance to his face on the cameratic plate, and Taylor care of private clients; therefore he invited Lewis, the professor of Greek, who seemed Vanderpoel to aid him with them. Although