roy, '97, has had a very fine offer to take up again his marine engineering work, and will probably accept. E. E. Osgoode, '99, who gave up his position as private secretary to Norman B. Ream, the Chicago capitalist, to accept educational work in California, has had a very severe sickness. For a time it was thought he would die. He has planned a trip to Honolulu in the interest of health, and will probably take up business in Los Angeles on his return. Theodore D. McDonald, '97, is associate principal of a New York coaching school, 518 Fifth avenue, New York. Henry M. Lummis, 'oo, is in the legal department of the Metropolitan Street Railway, New York City. Charles Young, '98, has given up his position as managing clerk with Henry W. Jessup, '88, and taken a desk with the Fidelity and Deposit Company, 135 Broadway, New York.

SWAN ALUMNI.-Governor Nash of Ohio was the principal speaker at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Sons of Ohio, New York City, March 31st. Success, in illustrating the simple character of President McKinley, informs us that the bible on which he took the oath of office, was the one from which his mother and grandmother read to him when a boy. Harry E. King, '97, has just been appointed by Gov. Nash, Swan, as chief clerk in the Railway Commissioners office. Roscoe J. Mauck, '92, formerly practicing law at Gallopolis, Ohio, is the new Ohio State Building and Loan Inspector. George W. Bope, '97, ex-City Prosecutor of Columbus, has entered politics and is making the race for nomination to the legislature. March 29th, the officers and clerks in Uncle Sam's Department of Justice gave a reception to the retiring Attorney General Griggs. Solicitor General Richards, Swan, representing, on behalf of the employees of the department, presented Mr. Griggs a large silver claret pitcher of unique design. On a panel of the pitcher was the inscription

Presented to

John William Griggs,

On His Retirement from the Office of
Attorney General of the United States.
March 29, 1901.

Qui pro Domina Justitia Sequitur.

The presentation remarks of Mr. Richards were very happy:

Mr. Attorney General: During three years memorable in the history of our country, as trusted adviser in trying times of one of the great Presidents of the Republic and as chief law officer of the Government when chief legal questions sought solution, you have added

to your fame as a statesman and your reputation as a lawyer. You have served with distinction as Attorney General. You have been urged to remain, but for good reasons you prefer to retire. We are proud to have served under you. We are sorry to see you go. The burden you have had to bear the trying work you have had to do— has never made you unmindful of your subordinates. Your uniform kindness and courtesy as our chief has touched our hearts. We want you to take away a token of this fact. We wish you God-speed, and as a visible evidence of our good will we beg you to accept this piece of silver. It may serve to remind you of the days when you were the chosen champion of our Lady Justitia and recall the faces of those who will wish you well.

What is known as the Ohio Anti-Lynching Law was recently sustained by the Supreme Court. "Click" Mitchell, a negro, was lynched at Urbana, Ohio, June 4, 1897. His administrator brought suit against the commissioners of Champaign County to recover the sum of $5,000.00 under the special statute making the county in which the lynching occurred liable in such cases.

A verdict for $5,000.00 was given the amount allowed by the law, and the decision of the lower court has stood the test of all the courts of the state.

R. H. G.

HARLAN ALUMNI.-Frederick W. Kelly, '91, has moved from Milwaukee to Seattle, Wash., and opened offices in the New York Block. Hon. Wm. F. Vilas, U. S. Senator from Wisconsin, delivered the Commencement address of the Columbian University Law School on May 28th. Vroman Mason, 'or, is practicing in Dodgeville, Wis., and is a member of the law firm of Reese, Carter, and Mason. Prof. Chas. Noble Gregory, associate dean of the Wisconsin law school, has resigned that position and accepted the chancellorship of the law school of Iowa University. A sketch of Professor Gregory's work will appear in a later BRIEF. Otto C. Baumgartner, who has been in Colorado Springs for his health, has so far recovered that he resumes his practice, 909 Pabst building, Milwaukee.

MARSHALL ALUMNI.-Jos. W. Butts, Consul, was given the degree of D.C.L. by the Columbian University at its late commencement. Ashley M. Gould, '84, has been appointed District Attorney for the District of Columbia.

BOOTH ALUMNI.-Geo. Mills Rogers, '86, for many years secretary of the Chicago Bar Association, has been pushing bills before

the Illinois legislature to remedy faults in the justice-court practice of that state. Prof. Harvey B. Hurd, of the Northwestern University law school, presided at the March 16th meeting of the Chicago Bar Association and drafted resolutions on the death of ex-President Harrison. Mr. Hurd was appointed chairman of the committee seeking to amend the juvenile court law. Shirly T. High, '97, was elected to membership in the association.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN on the Value of Oral Arguments.Speaking with reference to the observations of the late Lord Russell of Killowen, disparaging oral arguments, Mr. Justice Harlan, Kent, of the Supreme Court of the United States, not long ago made these remarks to a correspondent of the New York Evening Post:

the case.

"It is a matter of serious regret and concern to this Court that the practice of oral argument appears to be falling into disuse. The idea seems to have become general among members of the bar that we prefer arguments presented in the form of written briefs. Such is not There are many times when nothing can take the place of the personal presentation. Briefs are well enough in their way, but it very often happens that the real point upon which a case turns may be overlooked in a brief, while an oral argument may serve to bring it home to the Court. A special emphasis, a striking simile, may throw new light on an intricate problem, and perhaps reverse a judgment in the mind of the Court."

In commenting on this, the Am. Law Rev. says:

"The Supreme Court of the United States have always set high value upon oral argument, and difficult cases are often ordered down for reargument by that Court. Two hours on a side are allowed for argument, and in cases of great importance, the time is extended. During the argument the judges frequently ask questions, tending to clear doubts in their minds. It is a pleasure to listen to a good argument in the Supreme Court. The fretfulness and impatience of argument which are discovered in some other appellate Courts does not exist there at all."

MISCELLANEOUS ALUMNI.-Justice Brewer, Green, will deliver the commemorative address next October at the Yale bi-centennial. Hon. John F. Dillon, from whom Dillon chapter was named, delivered an address on John Marshall in the New York State Assembly chambers, Albany, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1901. The address is printed in full in the Albany Law Journal and is probably the best of the year. Theodore Roosevelt, Story '86, came up from Washington to speak at this spring's twenty-fifth annual meeting of the New York Legal Aid Society. Prof. Chas. P. Norton, Daniels, of the Buffalo Law School, addressed the New York Bar Association meeting, Albany,

January 22d, on "State Control of the Police." He is opposed to the plan of having the State authorities control the police of all of New York's large cities.

James Jay Sheridan, Waite '95, was chairman of the banquet committee of the Hamilton club at its celebration of Appomattox Day, at the Auditorium, Chicago, April 9th. The affair was very elaborate. President Angell, of the University of Michigan, and Bishop Dudley were among the speakers.

Judges Cutting and Grosscup, both Fuller, were among the principal speakers at the Chicago celebration of John Marshall Day. Their addresses are in the Chicago Legal News of Feb. 9th.

MCCLAIN ALUMNI.-A. L. Rule, 'oo, was married June 5th, to Miss Edith Brady, of Cedar Rapids, at the First Presbyterian Church of that city. Their wedding trip will be to Europe for three months, and they will be at home, 816 3d Avenue, Cedar Rapids, after September 1st. Letts, '99, and McGee, 'oo, have formed a partnership and are practicing in Davenport, Iowa. "Dickinson & Harrington is now the style of a law firm in Algona, Iowa. They will be remembered as members of the class of 1899. E. A. Smith, '99, is practicing in Omaha, Nebraska, and from all reports is doing well. Havner, '99, is in Marengo, Iowa, and has formed a partnership with an old practitioner. Otto, 'oo, is in Iowa City with the firm of Bradley & Ranck. Burt, 'oo, is in Emmetsburg, Iowa, and is holding the office of city clerk and is also secretary of the Building and Loan Association at that place, besides practicing. Howard, 'oo, is now a justice of the peace at Indianola, Iowa. Sargent, ex-'oo, has returned to school and will finish his work with the present class that he was obliged to abandon on account of ill health last year. J. M. T.

Kent Alumni.-Henry Wollman, '78, has been defending the New York Morning Telegraph in the libel suit brought against it by the actor Eric Hope, otherwise the Earl of Yarmouth. The paper said the earl was not worth five cents as an actor. The verdict was $2,500. Mr. Wollman is also attorney for Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, who petitions to be declared a bankrupt. Judge William H. Taft, president of the Philippine Commission is being put forward by the Republican papers as nominee for the next Governor of Ohio. Elias I. Johnson, '90, has been appointed one of the three United States. Judges of the Philippine Island courts. The salary is $5,500. Henry W. Rogers, formerly president of Northwestern University and who resigned to take the chair left vacant in the Yale law school by the death of Hon. Edw. J. Phelps, Waite, delivered the address, "The Legal Profession" at the graduating exercises of the woman's

law class of New York University, Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 28, 1901. A. A. Birney, '73, president of the Washington, D. C., Alumni Club, was one of the attorneys for John H. Adriaans, recently disbarred by the District of Columbia courts for using insulting language in his pleadings. H. L. Weinstein, 'or, ex-consul and good fellow generally, after being nominated last fall for the Michigan legislature and defeated by his Democratic opponent, went to Seattle, Wash., and is in the commission house of Chamberlain, Hamilton & Co. His address is 909 Western Ave., Seattle. J. L. Starkeweather, '70, of Rome City, Mich., has been badly marked for life by Dr. Chas. Spencer of that town. Mr. Starkeweather is the attorney for Mrs. Spencer who sued the doctor for divorce, and the doctor retaliated by throwing vitriol into the attorney's face. Fortunately his eyes are not injured.

THE LAWYER'S VACATION: ITS NATURE AND VALUE.

Mr. Howard L. Smith's remarks to the Illinois Bar on this sub

ject were, in part, as follows: "Not the least important part of the lawyer's vocation is to secure his vacation. We must find a vacation. Many a lawyer takes a vacation in a grudging and regretful manner, with the hope that a two weeks' rest will enable him to work like a horse the balance of the year. This is the wrong point of view, for it puts the lawyer in the same plane as and gives him no higher ideals than the greedy commercialist. The lawyer should not take just sufficient vacation to enable him to work to his maximum capacity the rest of the year. He should rather do just enough work to enable him to enjoy the maximum possible amount of vacation.

"I have no patience with the strenuous life that is strenuous only for the sake of strenuousness, that finds its highest ideals in the unceasing activity of the buzz-saw, propelled by unreasoning belts, that whirls with unceasing hum, whether there be anything to cut or not; whirls the faster the less there is to do, and stops only to be greased or filed, that it may buzz some more. Let the worshippers of wealth, the devotees of commercialism, be human buzz-saws, if they will. The true lawyer cannot forget that his is something more than a business, that is it a learned and elegant profession, the chief instrument of which is the human intellect, as sharpened, strengthened and refined by education, travel, experience, books, art, culture. The all-pervading commercial spirit of the age tends somewhat too strongly to infect even the professions with sordid ideals and socalled business methods. Some metropolitan law-offices affect an organization like a department store, and borrow much of its machinery; and, with all of us, there is a tendency which needs resisting to regard our calling too much as a business, too little as a profession."-Post (N. Y.).