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Lecture brain which shall tire not, day nor night, in the arduous work; -mayhap some such man will be so fortunate as to leave on the massive, the imposing, the ever-advancing but ever-uncompleted structure of our jurisprudence some visible imprint, some lasting expression, some embodied memorial of his genius and his labors. If the foregoing retrospect of a century's progress in our laws illustrates any one thing, it is that in the domain of the law, as elsewhere,

Inspiring influences of Yale University.

"There are great truths that pitch their shining tents
Outside our walls, and though but dimly seen

In the gray dawn, they will be manifest
When the light widens into perfect day."1

Conclusion. And here the STORRS LECTURES for the current year come to an end. It has been a sincere pleasure to me to give them. I have scattered such poor seed as I had in hand, in the hope that, as sometimes happens, even a seedling may chance to spring up into something of worth. The teacher must sow in faith, and in faith the student must hear, and the lawyer must labor; but the latter will miss his highest, his noblest end and aim, if he degrades his great calling into a trade, a mere means of livelihood. Such happily are not the influences that in the past have gone forth from this famous university, which, as I speak A pre-emi- these parting words, enjoys the rare distinction of tinction. having two of its sons worthily holding and adorning seats upon the Supreme Bench of the United

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1 Longfellow, "Michael Angelo."

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States, honoring it and honoring their alma mater.1 Lecture Young gentlemen, with tender regret, full of faith and hope, and entreating you as you shall go hence to the stern duties of your profession to wear ever the white flower of a blameless life," I take my leave of you with the benison that of old was bestowed upon the youthful knight: BE BRAVE, LOYAL, AND SUCCESSFUL!

1 Justices Brewer and Brown. Since then, Mr. Justice Shiras has been added, so that Yale University has the unique and pre-eminent distinction of having three of the nine judges who now (1893) constitute the bench of the Supreme Court.