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Judge Bartlett Dead DWARD

THEODORE

BARTLETT. Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. died of heart failure May 3 at the Albany Hospital. He had been a member of the Court of Appeals since 1894. He was born June H. lN-ll. at Skaneateles, N. Y. His ancestors included two signers of

the Dealaration of Independence. As a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York,

he took an active part in the ﬁght under the Tweed regime for the purity of the judiciary, which re sulted in the impeachment of two judges. Governor Hughes happily voiced

the sentiment of the legal profes sion in his feeling tribute to this able and conscientious jurist: "He

has served the State in its court of last resort with conspicuous ability and ﬁdelity, and enjoyed general esteem and conﬁdence."

THE LATE JUDGE EDWARD T. BARTLETT (Photo by Albany Art Union)

Ezra Ripley Thayer HE ﬁrst instructors in law at Harvard as a rule were retired judges or practitioners. Story lectured there while still on the bench of the

Supreme Court of the United States. When President Eliot in 1870 began

the development of the graduate de partments, he selected for Dean of the

Law School a recent graduate who had conceived a new method of legal instruction by teaching the student to reason from the original sources. Dean Langdell and his successor, Dean Ames, had but the slightest experience in practice and were essentially students

and teachers. The success of their method, both theoretically and prac

tically, is proved by its adoption by almost all the other law schools, and its acceptance by the profession. Indeed it seems to have reached nearly the limit of development. , The new President of Harvard Uni versity is himself a lawyer, and in choosing a successor to Dean Ames, he has selected a product of the teaching of Langdell and Ames, but one who, with only a brief experience in teaching,

for nearly twenty years has been en gaged in active court practice.