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. I. IUR Tl! A1 IIT Pl' WIA' lmzztz' fy' SABLUEL WVEBBE it -1.fw.. slime . 'S x S amz fy' 75,1 rarity' ff c7Uffl5'ir161'lmUTQSl'tQ'i -nl, so xxx i if J kg. ' XX xx rf!! Kffhfflf Wliffifr E xxx KX f 2 X X 4 X X Thi- lloust- in which the School Began-Second College House, in which three rooms on the first floor were used for the Law S l't ll f 18l t 1889 h Da Hll b 'lt Th H ll th h fS lWbb .t-linol .uit is iiriirv rom 1 o .. w en ne a was ui , e ouse was origma y e ome o amue e er, Prof.-ssor .mtl l.itt-r President of the University, and was afterward bought by the college. The building at the left was the county court house, which stood on the site of the present building of the Harvard Cooperative Society in Harvard Square. propriate to start a history of England with the creation of the world. In England until 1753, and in the United States until 1779 there was no college or univer- sity offering systematic instruction in the common law. England, to be sure, for centuries had pro- vided students a sort of law-school in the Inns of Court. In America. apprenticeship to a prac- ticing lawyer was the only established training for the Bar: and where the master was himself well- read and attentive to his students this system of instruction was excellent. But the student was bound to suffer from a lack of proper intro- ductory books. and was probably destined to some neglect from a lawyer-master busy about his practice. Then in 1753 young Dr. William Blackstone of All Souls. Oxford, was sadly disappointed when political influence gave the Regius Profes- sorship of Civil Law to a rival. Blackstone's friend Solicitor-General Murray Clater to become Lord Mansfieldl comforted him by urging that instead he undertake a course of lectures at Ox- ford on the common law, the result was an im- mediate and resounding success. Blackstone's pirated lecture-notes were sought by eager law students who had been drudging through Coke upon Littleton and copying dreary office forms. Blackstone, to protect his own work, began in 1756 to publish a yearly outline of his lectures. In the same year Charles Viner, to found a pro- fessorship of the common law bequeathed to Oxford a substantial fortune earned by an Abridgement , a sort of digest of English law which Viner had written. In 1758 Oxford elected Blackstone its first Vinerian Professorg in the 1760's he published his Commentaries which sold like hot-cakes in England and on this side of the Atlantic. In 1775, Edmund Burke told the English House of Commons that almost as many copies had been sold in America as in England. American professorships of law were promptly proposed, in 1777 the Reverend Ezra Stiles, soon to be President of Yale, drafted a curriculum for a professorship of law which he hoped the Connecticut General Assembly would establish at that University. But William and Mary College in Virginia, under Thomas Jefferson's urging,
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A . U. i af 'f an '01 1-a .1747 4 3 l Lhelaw Webber, ae county stone's rr law Coke fomis. an in JIUICS. t pro- rd I0 f all 1 law :cted the gold 3 of the tally and. PHY pon tum the lish est ns, 53 -wi, set up America's first professorship of law, a chair of Law and Policen, in 1779. George Wythe, distinguished judge, was the first pro- fessor of the new chair and in 1779-80 Captain John Marshall, on leave from active duty, got his only formal instruction in law from Professor Wythe at William and Mary. In 1784, Judge Tapping Reeve of Litchfield, Connecticut, es- tablished a remarkably successful private law- school in that village, which in forty years of life gave professional training to more than a thousand men, 16 of whom became United States Senators, 50 Congressmen, 40 Justices of higher State courts including 8 Chief Justices, 2 Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 10 Gover- nors, and 5 Cabinet members. In 1790 the college of Philadelphia, later the University of Pennsyl- vania appointed as professor of law James Wilson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Three years later Columbia ap- pointed James Kent professor of law. Yale es- tablished such a professorship in 1801. All these college and university professorships of law, like the Vinerian Chair at Oxford, were intended at least as much for the non-professional education of citizen leaders as for men who intended to practice law. Meantime from the 1780's on suggestions were made for establishment of an law-professorship at Harvard. Isaac Royall made the most effective such suggestion, for in his will he gave to Harvard at his death in 1781 a substantial gift of western Massachusetts lands to support a professorship of law or Physick and Anatomyf, Royall had been a prominent and prosperous public man in prerevolutionary Massachusetts. Allied by mar- riage with the Cambridge Vassalls, he was a na- tural Loyalist. In April, 1775 he left his Medford home to take refuge with General Gage's forces in Boston, went, like other Loyalists, to Nova Scotia for a while, and then went to England with his daughter, her husband and children, there he died. Many men's feelings in colonial America were bitter against Loyalists, and Harvard found that obtaining the benefit of Royallls testamentary gift was a slow business. In 1795 the University sold for 32,000 a tract of seven or eight hundred areas, more or less, in 'fthe Township of Granby formerly known by the name of South Hadley in the County of Hampshire. In 1808 and 1809 Harvard sold two other parcels for 5837.90 and S100. These sums, and the reinvested interest on it 3' Dane Hall-As it a eared for 1882, when it was built, until about 1845, when the addition shown on the PP next page was made in the rear.
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