with James C. Carter, William M. Evarts, Jo seph H. Choate, William G. Choate, George Hoadly, George Frederick Betts, George De Forest Lord, C. C. Beaman, D. H. Cham berlain, and George Bliss; at Providence, Benjamin F. Thurston, and formerly Charles S. Bradley; at Detroit, George V. N. Lothrop, the late Minister to Russia; at Savannah, Alexander R. Lawton; at St. John (N. B.), Ezekiel McLeod. The educational influence of the Cam bridge School has not been confined to the instruction given within its walls. Former students have as professors of law elsewhere spread wide its teachings. Thus, Francis Wayland, the Dean of the Yale Law School, and Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, and Edmund H. Bennett, Dean of the Boston University Law School, studied at Cambridge. Widely, too, has the Harvard Law School made its influence felt by the legal writings not of its professors merely, but also of others who were once its students. The last decade alone has given us, among others, Judge Holmes's work on the " Common Law," Langdell's " Summary of the Law of Con tracts," Gray's works on " Perpetuities " and "Restraints on Alienation," Jones's trea tises on " Mortgages and Liens," Benjamin Vaughan Abbot's various writings, Pierce on " Railroad Law," Gould on " Waters," Thompson &Merriam on "Juries," Morawetz on " Private Corporations," Merwin's " Pat entability of Inventions," Stimson's " Ameri can Statute Law," besides the valuable writings of such authors as Preble, Austin, Grinnell, Aldrich, Wald, and Chamberlayne. Among the many former students at the Harvard Law School who became prominent in spheres other than the law, may be named Caleb Cushing, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Robert T. Lincoln; Elihu B. Washburn, Richard H. Dana, and Anson Burlingame; Motley, Prescott, and Parkman; James R. Lowell, William W. Story, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Harvard Law School has done a great work in the past. May we not venture to hope that the work of the future will be im measurably greater?
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