Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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professor of law at tlif University of Vir- ginia, who ga f so many years of tireless effort to our own University as professor and as Dean of the Law Scliool. Among the alumni of Washmgton and Lee ha c been many Governors, and of them, four — William A. McCorkle, of West Virginia; Charles T. O ' Ferraii, of Virginia; L. V. Stephens, of Missouri, and Murphy J. Foster, of Louisiana, served simultaneously. The three first V ' J i W named received their legal training here, V B| i k while Governor Foster, of Louisiana. V B K oriiy tl € academic school. J H H B 1-1. Hall the alumnus to I ' .onored with a governorship, the Louisiana Democrats having chosen him in a recent [irimarv as the next occupant of the guber- II, lion. il ( li.ur. In Its list ol Judges of Superior Courts of the arious states few law schools equal Washington and Lee. Joseph Rucker Lamar, apointed Irom the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court of Georgia to the highest tribunal in the world, heads the roll of living Judges. Hon. Seth Shepard, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia; J. Harvey McLeary. formerly Attorney-General of Texas, then Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, and now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico; Judges John R. Tyson, of .Alabama; J. P. Hobson, of Kentucky; M. M. Neill, of Tennessee; S. L. Mestre at, ol Pennsybania; Frank H. Rudkin, of Washington; S. G. Whittle, of Virginia. Luther L. Hall and H. L. Dufour, of Louisiana, and A. Flunter Boyd, of Maryland; have gone out of the Washington and Lee Law School to adorn the highest seats of the American bench. The legislative halls of the nation have time and again numbered among their members graduates of this institution. Forty-two representatives, at least, from lourteen states have been Washington and Lee men, of whom about half were graduates ol the Law Department. In the present House are Fergusson, of New Mexico, first repre- sentative from the new slate; Da is, of West Virginia; Flood and Hay, of Virginia, and Slayden, of Texas, from the law school, with Mays, of Morida, from the Academic Department. James F. Lppes, D. Gardner Tyler and 1 larry St. George Tucker are CONGRESSMAN SLA ' iDli.N 20

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SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN that position at the Kentucky State Uni- ei-sity. William R. Vance, 95, whose career as instructor here and for one year Acting Dean, Dean of the Law School ol George Washington University, and pro- fessor in the Yale Law School, has been so brilliant, will in September become Dean at the University of Minnesota. A. H. Throckmorton, 1900, of the law fac- ulty of Indiana University, was for many years Dean at Center College, Kentucky. Judge R. M. Venable, of the class of 1 868, is a member of the Law faculty of the University of Maryland, and W. Goodwin Williams, 94, has recently be- come professor of Common Law at Louisiana State University. Harry St. George Tucker, B. L., ' 76, followed in the footsteps of his father as professor at Washmgton and Lee, 1897-99, and Dean, 1899-1902. But greatest of them all, perhaps, is Charles A. Graves, ' 73, Law School, and our own Martin Parks Burks, have proved themselves no less able teachers than their predecessors. It is but natural that a school having teachers of such caliber as were these men should have produced great teachers, and that has been the case. Not only have the alumni of the Washington and Lee Law School received honor as teachers m their Alma Mater, but many of them have added power to the law faculties of other colleges. A list of Deans of American Law Schools a year or two ago showed Wash- ington and Lee third in the number of her alumni who were at the head of law schools, only Harvard and Wisconsin out- ranking her. The list has now somewhat changed, but today Judge Thomas Hugh Somerville, B. L., ' 72, is Dean of the Law faculty of the L ' niversity of Mississippi, while Judge Lyman Chalkley, ' 89, holds SENATOR POINDEXTER

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CONGRESSMAN FLOOD William A. Glasgow, of Philadelphia; H. L. Norwood, Attorney-General o( Arkansas; James H. Dillard, of New Orleans, president of the Jeanes Founda- tion ; H. R. Preston, of Baltimore, gen- eral counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Ambrose H. Burroughs, of New York, general counsel for the Ameri- can Tobacco Company, and practi- tioners recognized as leaders at the bar in almost every state in the Union. The showing of this Law School is, in the words of the New York Evening Post, altogether extraordinary, and various newspapers have undertaken an explana- tion of it. The St. Louis Republic states its theory in this way : The kind of education that makes great men is not merely cultural, technical, or what not; it is a training that unlocks the possibilities of personality. In Wash- ington and Lee today the life of the teach- ers is static rather than dynamic ; they also among the many Law School alumni who have been members of the lower House, these three having represented Virginia. Recent years have added to the four- teen Washington and Lee men who have represented their states in the United States Senate the names of Owen, of Oklahoma, Foster, of Louisiana, William J. Bryan, of Florida, whose promising career was cut .short so soon ly death; N. P. Bryan, of Florida, a brother of William J. Bryan; Poindexter, of Wash- ington, and Chamberlain, of Oregon, lour of them Law School graduates. And there are other honored names, not to be left out of account, who in various ways have brought glory to their Alma Mater — E. B. Krutschnitt, Presi- dent of the Louisiana Constitutional Con- vention of 1888; Wade H. Ellis, At- torney-General of Ohio, later Assistant Attorney-General of the United States; CONGRESSMAN HAVES