The Legal World Ex-Governor Thomas T. Crittenden of Missouri died at Kansas City, May 29. After the Civil War Col. Crittenden formed a law partnership with Gen. F. M. Cockrell, and was elected to Congress five years later, after wards becoming United States Senator from Missouri, and later Governor. He afterward resumed the practice of law, and then served for four years as Consul-General to Mexico. John Noble, who not long ago retired from the position of Clerk of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which he J udicial h ad held for thirty-three years, died June 10. He was educated at Phillips- Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the Harvard Law School, and successfully practised law before his appointment. He was a man of consid erable legal learning, and belonged to numer ous societies.
Miscellaneous A new edition of Judge Dillon's invaluable Law of Municipal Corporations is now being prepared and will be published shortly. Diplomas were awarded to sixteen grad uates of the Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., May 24. Six of the class were women. The Idaho State University at Moscow, Idaho, will establish a law school, and Mr. John F. MacLane, Assistant Attorney-General, will begin his work as its head next fall. Mayor Malone, acting under the provisions of the Tennessee law creating a juvenile court, has selected a committee of three to investi gate its requirements for the city of Memphis. The largest class of law students that has ever appeared before the Missouri Board of Law Examiners, consisting of 139 students, took their examinations a month ago at Jefferson City. The commencement exercises of the Pitts burgh Law School, which is the law depart ment of the University of Pittsburgh, were held on June 9. A class consisting of thirtyone young men was graduated. Dr. Theodore Barth, the eminent publicist of Germany, who died June 2, was not a lawyer, but was a close student of political and economic institutions, and wrote easily and temperately on American affairs. The new session laws passed by the last legislature direct the judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts of the state of Washington to appear in open court "in gowns made of black silk of the usual style of judicial gowns."
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Miss Amy Wren, a practising lawyer of Brooklyn, has the distinction of being the first woman ever appointed to a receivership in the United States, having been designated to close up the business of a Brooklyn shoe firm. The Bar Commission of Oklahoma adopted a rule June 3, that attorneys will be admitted to the bar of that state when they have been admitted in other states on motion and have practised five years, or when they have been admitted in other states on examination and have practised one year. The Williamette College of Law held its commencement exercises at Salem, Ore., May 21. Circuit Judge George H. Burnett addressed the graduating class on the pro fessional career opening before them, while Speaker C. N. McArthur discussed their future duties as lawyers and citizens. Judge Emory Speer of Georgia, Dean of the Law School of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., delivered the annual address to the forty ?oung men of the graduating class, June 2. rizes were won by George Alexander Adams for excellence in constitutional law, and by John Burke Harris for the highest grade in law studies. The class day exercises of the Boston Uni versity Law School were held June 1. John H. Cogswell was class orator.and Jacob Berman was class historian, while Joseph ^ Klein made an address on "Boston in 1915" and Samuel Markell gave a "miniature horoscope." of the class as it would appear ten years hence. The closing of the 46th session of the Illinois Legislature was marked by the triumph of local option over the saloon ele ment, the contest being a close one. The liquor interests, finding that they could not secure a majority in the Senate, although they nearly had one, surrendered as gracefully as they could. Judge William H. De Lacy, Judge of the iuvenile Court in Washington, D.C., Judge lack. Judge of the Juvenile Court in Chicago, and Judge Emanuel Devine, Judge of the Juvenile Court in Cleveland, are some of the speakers who are to appear at the National Charities and Conference of Corrections to be held this year at Buffalo. The Supreme Court of the United States closed its October term June 1, and adjourned until the second Monday in October. With the exception of Justice Moody, who had been suffering from rheumatism, all the members of the Court were in attendance. Justice Harlan observed his seventy-sixth birthday on the closing day, declaring that he felt "just as spry as he had felt any time for many years."
