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 The Legal World administration and made our statutes to a large extent a patchwork of special favors. Much of this sort of thing is done without a sense of wrongdoin. A natural outgrowth of the evils to whic I have referred, but a disposition which no wrongs can excuse, is the spirit of lawlessness. The lawless spirit is frequently manifested in reckless abuse and indiscriminate censure of public oﬁioers. Democracy must prize its public life. Those who cultivate the true democratic spirit will be as earnest in their support of faithful oﬂicers as they are unsparing in their con demnation of the faithless."

The Academic Roll of Honor The following lawyers received honorary Commencement degrees in June :— Vl'illiam Howard Taft, Doctor of Jurispru dence, Villanova; D.C.L., Marietta. President Taft is the third to receive this honor from Villanova, his two predecessors being Grover Cleveland and Judge Gray. Charles Evans Hughes, LL.D., Harvard; LL.D., Pennsylvania; LL.D., Williams. “Lawyer, Governor, and judge, who, beset

by foes, has fought with ﬁrmness in the right as God gave him to see the right; now a guardian of our institutions in a tribunal that demands both the learning of the jurist and the wisdom of the statesman." Samuel Williston, LL.D., Harvard.

“Brilliant master and keen teacher of the common law, who for a score of years has trained and inspired a generation of lawyers." Richard Cockburn MacLaurin, LL.D., Har vard.

“A scholar distinguished in three continents for his knowledge of the laws of nature and 0 man." Chief Justice and present Governor of “scholar,

jurist,

and

George Lockhart Rives, LL.D., Amherst. Chairman of the trustees of Columbia Uni

versity, “an eminent lawyer, a public spirited citizen." General james A. Beaver, LL.D., Edinburgh. judge of the Superior Court, Pennsylvania, "gallant general and learned judge." judge Abel Edward Blackmar, LL.D., Hamil ton.

Justice of the Supreme Court of New York. judge john joy Adams, LL.D., Kenyon. belie; distinguished services on the Ohio nc. D. Newton Fell, LL.D., Lafayette. Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania. john Franklin Fort, LL.D., Lafayette. Governor of New Jersey. James Brooks Dill, LL.D., New York Univ. “Recognized by his profession as an up right, fearless and learned judge." Edward Augustine Moseley, LL.D., Notre Dame.

Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Warren Coﬂin Philbrook, LL.D., Colby. Attorney-General of Maine. William 1. Gaynor, LL.D., St. John's. Mayor of New York City. Judson Harmon, Denison.

LL.D.,

Marietta;

D.C.L.,

Governor of Ohio. john E. Sater, LL.D., Marietta.

United States district judge. George V. Massey, LL.D., Ursinus. "A counsellor in the law, a patron of learn ing, a. friend of man and a benefactor in society." Ruby R. Vale, D.C.L., Dickinson. Lawyer, of Philadelphia.

l/Valter Francis Freer, LL.D., Yale. Hawaii,

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statesman

of compelling inﬂuence and efficiency." William Mershon Lanning, LL.D., Princeton.

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, D.C.L., St. Stephens. Lieutenant-Governor of New York.

Albert Stillman Batchelor, Litt. D., Dartmouth. “Distinguished student of the law and one

United States judge for the third judicial

resourceful in its practice, who to a clear

circuit; “a lawyer o distinction, an efficient educational servant." James Montgomery Beck, LL.D., Pennsyl vania. “One of the recognized masters in the realm of law, an interesting analyst of the consequences that flow from formulating political dogmas, an accredited ambassador to elucidate economic principles aﬁecting industry and ﬁnance." Edward Church Dubois, LL.D., Brown. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, "who has climbed by studious and faithful years to become the interpreter of the sovereign law, guardian by training and by oﬁice o the rights of the people."

perception and sound historical judgment adds the charm and grace of literary expres sion." Cal. Thomas Leonard Livermore, A.M.,Harvard. "Soldier,

lawyer,

man

of

affairs,

and

writer; who almost in boyhood fought in the Civil War; now a profound student of its history; pre-eminent among statisticians of the conflict." William Langley Cranberry, A. M., Princeton. "A lawyer and a business man of marked ability and rare honor." William M. Ingraham, A. M., Bowdoin.

"Eﬂicient public servant, Judge of Cum berland County Probate Court." Walter Perley Hall, A. M., Brown.

Francis Cabot Lowell, LL.D., Williams.

Justice of the United States Circuit Court. Willard Penﬁeld Voorhees, LL.D., Rutgers. Associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Massachusetts, “devoted servant of the state,

who by energy and insight is making trans ortatlon the servant o the people and the uilder of common good."