'OI, is practicing, and is located in Springfield, Mo. Roscoe Patterson is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Green County.

MISCELLANEOUS ALUMNI.-Davis Hawley, Jr., Conkling, 'o1, is practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, and Roy M. Hart has opened an office in Rochester, N. Y. Henry W. Showers, Comstock, '98, is practicing in New York with Franklin Pierce. He was recently proposed as trustee in the large bankruptcy proceeding against F. B. Thurber. Mr. Pierce is an attorney for the Eno estate which had claims proved against Thurber for $76,000.

The vacancy in the chair of Practice and Procedure in the Cornell law school, caused by the resignation of Prof. Henry S. Redfield, had been filled by the appointment of Prof. Frank Irvine, Lincoln, of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Irvine graduated from Cornell in 1880. He has served as Assistant District Attorney of the District of Columbia, and has been on the bench of the court of last resort in Nebraska and professor in the Nebraska University law school for many years.

RUFUS CHOATE'S MANNER.

It

Rufus Choate had a voice without any gruff or any shrill tones. was like a sweet, yet powerful, flute. He never strained it or seemed to exert it to its fullest capacity. I do not know any other public speaker whose style resembled his in the least. Perhaps Jeremy Taylor was his model, if he had any model. The phraseology with which he clothed some commonplace or mean thought or fact, when he was compelled to use commonplace arguments, or to tell some common story, kept his auditors ever alert and expectant. An Irishmen, who had killed his wife, threw away the axe with which Choate claimed the deed was done, when he heard somebody coming. This, in Choate's language, was "the sudden and frantic ejaculation of the axe." Indeed, his speech was a perpetual surprise. Whether you liked him or disliked him you gave him your ears, erect and intent. He used manuscripts a great deal, even in speaking to juries. When a trial was on, lasting days or weeks, he kept pen, ink, and paper at hand in his bedroom, and would often get up in the middle of the night to write down thoughts that came to him as he lay in bed. He was always careful to keep warm. It was said he prepared for a great jury argument by taking off eight great coats and drinking eight cups of green tea.-Senator Hoar in Scribner's.

Chapter Letters.

PHI DELTA PHI CLUB OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

To judge from the present indications the coming year is to be even more successful and interesting than any the club has yet experienced. The machinery of the organization is in excellent working order, and the membership is strong. The plans for the club house, a local Fraternity home, are taking definite shape, and the members' enthusiasm over the project justifies the belief that the coming year will see the realization of the house plan.

The new season will start in October, with a bright outlook for the fall meetings, having regard to the personnel of the speakers, and their reputation for entertaining addresses.

Speakers have been secured for the meetings to be held in October, November and December, and the club is assured of an interesting and instructive meeting in each of these months. Invitations to address the club have been extended to and accepted by the following: Honorable John Woodward, one of the Justices of the Appellate Division of the Second Department of New York; Stewart Chaplin, Esq., the deservedly eminent writer on real estate subjects, and a member of the club; Professor Hampton L. Carson, of the School of Law of the University of Pennsylvania; and United States District Attorney Beck, Philadelphia.

It is a significant fact that even during the summer vacation, when the club holds no meetings, there have been not a few applications for membership. The club hopes, with good reason, to increase its sphere of usefulness during the coming season.

C. T. T.

The first meeting of the club for the season was held Monday, Oct. 14, as scheduled, and about ninety attended. Professor Terry presided. The guests of the evening were Judges Woodward and Blanchard, of the New York Supreme Court, Hon. Hampton L. Carson, of Philadelphia, Prof. Isaac F. Russell, of the New York University law school, and Mr. Peckham, of the New York law firm, Peckham, Warner and Strong. Judge Woodward spoke at length on "The Ethics of the Law of Negligence" and was followed by Mr.

Carson, who spoke on "The Value to the Lawyer of the Study of Legal Biographies." In his introductory remarks on "The Philadelphia Lawyer" Mr. Carson suggested that the expression arose from Andrew Hamilton's defense of John Peter Zenger, the Albany editor, who was accused of libelling the judges of New York province, and in which defense Hamilton won his point that both the fact of publishing and whether or not the matter was libellous should be left to the jury. This was in 1732, years before Erskine, to whom the credit is usually given, argued to the same effect in England. Mr. Carson insisted that the reading of legal biographies made better lawyers; that it gives one a knowledge of the setting of a case-time and circumstances and personality of the judge, helping one see in a clear light just what the case decides; and that it follows logically from the use of the case system.

It is hoped that both addresses will appear in the BRIEF. Story chapter was out in force. The meeting was very enjoyable and

augurs well for a successful year.

WASHINGTON ALUMNI CLUB.

C. H. T.

The first meeting for the winter season of the Phi Delta Phi Club of Washington was held in the form of a smoker at the Rathskeller, corner 8th and E. Sts. N. W., on Thursday, October 24, 1901. It is intended to hold smokers in January and April of next year, and a dinner in each of the remaining months of the season.

R. Ross Perry, a member of the commission which drew up the new code for the District of Columbia, which goes into effect next January, will be the guest of the club at the November dinner. He has promised to address the members on the history of the movement leading to the adoption of the code, and of the general plan of the code itself. Hon. David Jayne Hill, Assistant Secretary of State and professor of the history of diplomacy at Columbian University, will be the guest of the club at the December dinner.

The members are beginning to appreciate the value of the informal gatherings in bringing them into closer touch with one another and the meetings of the winter will be fully attended.

F. v. B.

HAMILTON-CINCINNATI UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL.

On May 26th the chapter met and adjourned sine die. The interval between our last letter and this meeting was not long enough to furnish many dramatic incidents to record. So the learned editor is

driven to the past. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that the result of our voting be exposed. The officers for the ensuing year are as follow: Robert Buchwalter, Consul; Henry Hunt, Pro-Consul; Constant Southworth, Scriptor; Reuben Robertson, Gladiator; Charlton Thompson, Historian.

But for the fact that remarks on examinations might seem to put the editor in the position of a hard-pushed weather critic, it would be tempting to point with pride to the record of Hamilton, both here and at Columbus. Clearly, the chapter has not been omitting the sweet benefit of time-then came summer, and that is the hibernating period for chapters. CHARLTON THOMPSON.

CINCINNATI, July 29, 1901.

DWIGHT-NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL.

Dwight chapter has ended a very successful year, not only from the character of the new men elected, but also from the position it has assumed in the New York Law School. The only regret of the year is that of losing its Senior members of the class of 1901, recently graduated, but it is the hope of the chapter to keep in close touch with its alumni, and to have them frequently at chapter meetings.

Among the members of Dwight chapter recently admitted to, and soon to become prominent members of the New York Bar, we would mention Bros. Bailey, Barnes, Foster, Hamlin, Hewitt, Lenson, Stearns, Sawyer, and Walker. The present chapter can only hope to follow in their footsteps.

The chapter was honored by an invitation to the May meeting of the Phi Delta Phi Club of the City of New York. Those who were able to avail themselves of the courtesy of this club-and there were some eight or ten of us—passed a very pleasant evening, and heard with interest and enthusiasm the addresses of Judge Gaynor and Mr. Paul Fuller and the remarks of Prof. Terry, the president of the club. We look forward with pleasure to becoming members. Dwight has every reason to anticipate a very prosperous year for

1901-1902.

NEW YORK, July 18, 1901.

F. M. WAKEFIELD KOCH.

POMEROY-HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW.

The season of 1900-1901 closed for Pomeroy with the annual reunion banquet in which we were joined by Miller chapter of Stanford University. Expedience required that we should initiate several men from the University of California, before the closing of the col

lege year, and it was deemed advisable to do this at the banquet. The candidates hailing from U. of C. and half the audience from its rival institution, which, as it happened, had suffered defeat at the hands of U. of C. in a game of ball on that very afternoon, it is needless to say that the ceremony was attended by a remarkable display of interest on the part of our Stanford brothers, whose aid added much to its success. The names of the victims were learned shortly after the accident, and are as follow: Lloyd Scott, U. C. '99; Herbert Bailey, U. C., 'oo; and William Orrick, U. C., 'OI.

The evening was concluded with the election of officers of Pomeroy chapter, with these results: Consul, J. M. O'Brien; Pro-Consul, J. V. DeLaveaga; Scriptor, J. M. Mannon; Tribune, Wm. H. Smith, and Gladiator, Lloyd A. Scott.

The work of Pomeroy has been somewhat hindered, during the last year, by a lack of permanent location. The rooms in the Hastings College of the Law, where the chapter was accustomed to meet and hold moot court were destroyed by fire some months ago, and we have suffered with the college. Again, we have been disturbed by rumors that the new president of the University of California, according to his policy, would strive to make the now affiliated College of the Law, an integral part of the University, and to effect this, would transfer the first two years of law-college work from San Francisco to Berkeley. Should this be accomplished, the chapter would probably follow, and the change, we think, would work undoubted good As yet, these plans are all in air, but they have set us thinking. The opening of the fall term will see the Law College in rooms which have been assigned to it at the City Hall, and Pomeroy will have the use of these quarters for its meetings.

to us.

In the graduating class we lost brothers Peart, Chandler, Ede, Wright, Chickering, Thomas Bishop and Evans and James Bishop. All are now connected with our best law firms, and two, the Bishop brothers, have married. With this loss to our ranks, we open the new term with about twelve active members, and the prospect of an immediate initiation which will swell our numbers by three.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 1901.

J. M. O'BRIEN.

FIELD-NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL.

For Vol. III., No. 4, of the BRIEF Field chapter has not a superabundance of news. The year just past has in many respects been most prosperous. This is due in a considerable degree to the untiring