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Justice Francis J. Swayze of Newark, N. J., was elected president of Harvard Alpha chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, on June 29.
by Chief Justice Appleton, who served thirty-one years, and by Justice Walton, thirty-five years. Chief Justice Emery has been succeeded by Associate Justice William Penn Whitehouse of Augusta.
The Senate has confirmed the appoint ment of Guy D. Goff, to be United
States Attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin. Charles H. Turner has resigned as assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia to take up the active practice of law. Mr. Turner, who is a native of New Hampshire, served in the Fifty-first Congress as the “baby of the House," representing the sixth district of New York City at the age of twenty-eight. John J. White of Atlantic City has been appointed by Governor Wilson
judge of the Court of Errors and Ap peals of New Jersey, to succeed the late Judge George R. Gray of Newark. Judge White practised law sixteen years before going to Atlantic City, where he has been one of the proprietors of the Marlborough-Blenheim.
At a meeting of the trustees of Boston University, Dean Melville M. Bigelow was, at his own request, relieved of his position as dean of Boston University Law School, and appointed to the posi tion of regius professor of the school. Alonzo R. Weed, a member of the board of trustees, was elected acting dean to succeed Mr. Bigelow. Professor
Bigelow is a native of Michigan, where he was born in 1846, his father being a Massachusetts man, and his mother
a Virginian. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1866, and two years later was admitted to the bar in Tennessee. He came to Cambridge in
1870, received an honorary degree of Ph.D. from Harvard in 1879, and in 1896 the Northwestern University con
ferred upon him an honorary degree of LL.D.
The Academic Roll of Honor Hon. Lucilius A. Emery has retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, his resignation taking effect
The following lawyers received honor ary Commencement degrees in June: —
July 26. He gave as the reason for his retirement the fact that he had passed
John Wilkes Hammond, LL.D. Harvard. Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; "a magistrate, learned, just and
his 70th birthday and thought he should devote his remaining years to less ardu ous labors and less onerous responsi bilities. Chief Justice Emery had served on the supreme bench for twenty-eight years, this period having been exceeded only twice in the history of the state,
the pride of Massachusetts in the great tradi tions of her highest court." Joseph Rucker Lamar, LL.D. Yale. Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Simeon E. Baldwin, LL.D. Columbia. Governor of Connecticut.
wise, honored by bench and bar, who has upheld
