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a Privy Councilor and permanent member of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs since 1882. He was the second Russian plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899 and President of the Second Commission. He was President of the Court of Arbitration in Paris in 1899 between Great Britain and Venezuela; arbitrator between France and England, England and Holland, andjjthe United States and Mexico. He was a member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration at The Hague; Russian delegate at the peace negotiations between Russia and Japan in Portsmouth in 1905, and plenipotentiary of Russia at the Geneva Con ference of 1906 for the revision of the Geneva Convention of 1867. He was also Second Russian Delegate at the Second Peace Con ference at The Hague in 1907. At the Yale Law School alumni banquet, held at New Haven on Class Day, June 28, Dean Rogers presided, and Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin unveiled a portrait of Dean William Callahan Robinson of the law department of the Catholic University of America, a former Professor of Law in Yale. Other speakers included ex-Gov. George P. McLean, Judge Selden D. Spencer of St. Louis, Burton Mansfield of New Haven, Dean Kirchway of the law department of Columbia University, and ex-Senator John C. Spooner, all alumni. The alumni re-elected C. Larue Munson of Williamsport, Penn., president; E. D. Whitney of New York and E. G. Buckland of Providence, vice presidents, and J. W. Edgerton, secretary and treasurer. The Law School exercises were held at Hendrie Hall immediately afterwards. The degree of Bachelor of Laws, sumtna cum laude, was conferred on F. H. Wiggin of New Haven, who leads his class.

At the annual meeting of the Harvard Law School Association held in June in the rooms of the Boston Bar Association, the following officers were elected: President, Melville W. Fuller, '55, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, District of Columbia, who was re-elected; vice presidents, David Cross, '43, New Hampshire; Addison Brown, '55, New York; Richard Olney, '58, Massachusetts; William T. Spear, '59, Ohio; Everett P. Wheeler, '59, New York; Joseph B. Cummings, '59, Georgia; Simeon E. Baldwin, '63, Connecticut; George Gray, '63, Delaware; JohnC. Gray, '66, New York; J. W. Hammond, 66, Massachusetts; Oliver Wendell Holmes, '66, Massachusetts; David T. Watson, '66, Pennsylvania; John S. Duncan, '67, Indiana; Ezekiel McLeod, '67, New Brunswick; Au gustus E. Willson, '70, Kentucky; Austen G. Fox, '71, New York; Jacob Klein, '71, Mis souri; Joseph B. Warner, '73, Massachusetts; Charles J. Bonaparte, '74, Maryland; William Thomas, '76, California; Louis D. Brandeis, '77, Massachusetts; Francis C. Lowell, '79, Massachusetts; Francis J. Swayze, '81, New Jersey; Shinichire Kurino, '81, Japan; Ed ward Kent, '86, Arizona; Julian W. Mack, '87, Illinois; Edward T. Sanford, '89, Ten nessee; George E. Wright, '92, Washington; secretary, Robert G. Dodge, '97, 60 State street, Boston; council, Winthrop H. Wade, '81, Boston; William G. Thompson, '91, Newton; Frank L. Hinckley, '94, Providence. Three of the vice presidents elected represent sections of the country which heretofore have not been included in the association, namely, the northwesterly and the southeasterly parts. The council recommended that it was expe dient to have one member elected to the council annually who should not be a Har vard graduate.

The United States Supreme Court By Harry R. Blythe They stand like sentries at a country's gates, Guarding the mighty realm lest in should come The alien things to poison and benumb The sovereign heart. Where this tribunal waits There dwells the ancient power of the fates Which sways our destinies. Not rolling drum Or cannonade their means,—all such is dumb Before these peaceful arbiters of States. They wield one battle-blade,—the country's law; And each man is an intellectual king Whose work shall last till time's clear eyes are dim It is but meet we look on them with awe Who can by weight of words such forces swing, While men have no appeal except to Him.