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Boston University Law School. Chester, Vt., in 1824, and was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1843. He studied law with his father, who was for many years an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. The profes sional career of Mr. Bennett began at Taun ton, Mass., whither he removed in 1848. He was mayor of the city in 1865, 1866, 1867; and in 1858 he was appointed Judge

of Probate for Bristol County, and held the position until 1883, at which time he re signed. During the years 1870, 1871, and 1872 he was a lecturer at the Harvard Law School, and was made a lecturer at the Bos ton Law School in 1872. His practice has always been a very large one, and he has written, edited, or assisted in editing more than a hundred volumes of legal works. Among them are a "Digest of Massachu setts Reports," " Ben nett and Heard's Lead ing Criminal Cases," "Bennett's Fire In surance Cases," and KDMUND H. American editions of "Goddard on Ease ments," "Benjamin on Sales," and "Indermaur on the Common Law." He has been for several years one of the editors of the "American Law Register." Judge Bennett has perhaps been able to accomplish this great amount of work by reason of his habit of untiring industry. He is never idle, and has great facility in passing from one class of work to another. He is a model lecturer, and excels in clearness of statement and in a power of leaving an unconfused impres sion upon the mind of a student. But per-

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haps his peculiar strength is as an executive officer, and in the influence which he exer cises over the students. He has a wonder ful faculty of controlling young men. During his long service as dean it is believed that there has not been an instance of insub ordination or resistance to authority, or any dissatisfaction with his decisions in the administration of the school. It would be hard to overesti. mate his contribution to the success of the institution. There is another man who has been a lecturer at the school from its infancy whose labors should not be forgotten in this brief sketch, and that is Melville M. Bigelow, Ph.D.- Mr. Bigelow now lectures upon Torts, Bills and Notes, and Insurance. He is known throughout the United States and England as the author of various legal works, among them being his "Estoppel," " Fraud," "Equity," " Torts," and " Leading Cases on Torts." Some two BENNETT. years since, his work on "Torts" was adopted as a text-book by the University of Cambridge in England; and at the request of the University, Mr. Bigelow has prepared an English edition, which the University has published for its own use. This certainly is an honor conferred upon but few American writers. Mr. Bigelow is without question one of the finest law lecturers in America. He has a peculiar power of analysis, which he uses with great discretion in his lectures. He treats his subjects in the most exhaustive manner, but through all his discussion holds