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Hints To Young Lawyers. An Address Delivered To The Senior Class Of The Law Department Of The University Of Michigan, Thomas M. Cooley

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Professor Cooley’s counsel to the gentlemen departing the Law Department: “To those of you who are about to bear away from this institution the certificate of its approbation, I have a few words to say in response to what I understand to be your desire, that my last address should be devoted to such hints of a practical character as may be of service to you in your professional career. The transition from the life of a student to that of a practicing lawyer is so great that it is not possible for one to be too well prepared by …

The Late Judge Mcdonald

David McDonald (1842-1853)

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Law And Lawyers In Society: An Address Delivered Before The Graduating Class Of The Law Department Of The University Of Michigan, March 28, 1866, James V. Campbell

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"We have spent some pleasant time together in searching out the foundations of the law. In studying its principles, you have acquired, I trust, a creditable amount of knowledge upon the special topics which are most likely to claim the attention of active lawyers ...."

"You need never fear to aim to high. The arrow never gravitates upward. The great danger among lawyers is, that they sometimes aim to low...."

Closing Remarks Of Prof J.V. Campbell To The Graduating Class Of The Law Department, March 21st, 1863., James V. Campbell

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[The following remarks of Professor Campbell, at the close of his series of Law Lectures for the present year, having been unanimously requested by the class for publication, were kindly furnished by him. Being extempore, and prompted solely by the feelings and emotions of the hour, it is the wish of those who heard those words of counsel and farewell to publish them, verbatim, as delivered.] ....

"....But among our thoughts the question will arise, To what end have we been spending this long period in searching out and studying the principles of the law? ... Why then have …

Address By Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, And Poem By D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., On The Dedication Of The Law Lecture Hall Of The Michigan University, Thomas M. Cooley, D. Bethune Duffield

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A stirring address by Professor Cooley upon the occasion of the dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the first Law School Building. He begins: "Students in the Department of Law: While Michigan was yet a wilderness, only feeling along its borders the advancing tread of civilization, and only hearing here and there the sound of the woodman's axe, the wisdom of American statesmen made provision for the establishment in the territory of a great University...."

Law Professor And Preparatory Department Of Wm. & Mary

1859–1861: Charles Morris

A meeting of the visitors of the College was held on the evening of the 4^th July, partly for the purpose of appointing a Law Professor, and establishing in connection with the College a Preparatory School.

As professor of Law the Visitors elected Mr. Charles Morris, of Hanover county, Va. From what we can learn, this was a judicious selection. In a letter to the Visitors from Hanover co., we find the following:

“Mr. Morris is a distinguished A.M. graduate of our University, and since he received some ten years ago the highest honors conferred on her favorite sons, …

The Fifteenth Annual Commencement Of The Law Department Indiana University

Recognition Ceremony

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On The Study Of Law: An Address At The Opening Of The Law Department Of The University Of Michigan, October 3, 1859, James V. Campbell

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Professor Campbell's address on the occasion of the inauguration of the Department of Law at the University of Michigan, laying out the hopes for and expectations of the newly-created unit. He sweeps wide through the history of the State and the nobility of the profession: "Let everyone come to the study of the Law with a proper sense of its dignity and importance."

The Late Lucian Minor, Editors Of The Southern Literary Messenger

1855–1858: Lucian Minor

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Thirteenth Annual Commencement Of The Law Department Program, 1857

Recognition Ceremony

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William And Mary College

1852–1855: George Parker Scarburgh

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William And Mary College: Law School

1852–1855: George Parker Scarburgh

The Board of Visitors have supplied the vacancy in this Department, by the unanimous election of Judge Scarburg, a gentleman, whose well known legal acquirements, and long experience at the Bar, and on the Bench, eminently qualify him for the duties of a Professor of Law, and render the selection highly gratifying to the friends of the venerable Institution with which he is now connected.

Although the engagements of Judge S. will not allow the commencement of his lectures before the 2d Wednesday of October next, it is thought advisable, to announce the arrangement in advance, for the information of …

Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker

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My Schoolmaster; Or, Blackstone Made Easy, Lucian Minor

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Introductory Address On The Study Of The Law Delivered In The Chapel Of Indiana University, David Mcdonald

David McDonald (1842-1853)

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Professor Beverley Tucker's Valedictory Address To His Class, N. Beverley Tucker

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Law Lecture At William And Mary, N. Beverley Tucker

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William And Mary College

1813–1818: Robert Nelson

The Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College have the satisfaction to announce to the public, that they have been enabled to fill the respective chairs in this Colleg . Doctor John Augustine Smith, is appointed President of the College and Professor of Moral Philosophy, including the Philosophy of Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Ethics, Belles-Lettres, History, the principles of Natural and National Law and Political Economy. Mr. Ferdinand Campbell is Professor of Mathematics which professor-ship will include Geography, Astronomy, the practical branches of Surveying, Navigation the construction of Maps & Charts, Dialling, Fortification & Gunnery, Perspective & Architecture. Dr. Thomas …

Resolution By William And Mary Students In Regard To The Death Of William Nelson, Professor Of Law

1804–1813: William Nelson

At a meeting of the Students of Wm. and Mary College on the 8th Inst. the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted.

We the Students of William & Mary College deeply impressed with a sense of our loss in the death of the late Hon. Judge Nelson, professor of Law in this college, and filled with sentiments of the highest veneration for the unparalleled virtues that adorned his private life, and with the utmost admiration of those talents and patriotic exertions which on pre-eminently distinguished him in his political services are anxious to pay to his memory the only …

Plan For Conferring Degrees On The Students Of Law In The University Of William And Mary (Ca. 1792), St. George Tucker

1790–1804: St. George Tucker

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At A Convocation Of The Visitors Of The College Of William And Mary, On The 4th Day Of December 1779, A Statute Was Passed, Of Which The Following Is An Extract, College Of William & Mary

1779–1789: George Wythe

At a convocation of the visitors of the college of William and Mary, on the 4th day of December 1779, a statute was passed, of which the following is an extract.

The friends of the college being no longer competent to support so extensive an institution, as that which the charter recommends; and when science at large cannot be cultivated, that scheme of education being most proper, which is more immediately subordinate to the leading objects of society:

The scanty stipend lately paid by each scholar for commons, having occasioned a considerable expense,

It being just, that students inducted into …