Four American Universities; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HAMILTON HAM. Kent; and Columbia proudly recalls the fact that it was to her students that Chancellor Kent first delivered his famous Commentaries on American Law, originally published in 1820. But it was not until 1858 that the School of Law was formally organized, with the late Theodore W. Dwight as its warden. As a teacher of law, as an expounder of principles, Dr. Dwight had no rival in our time; his lucidity was marvellous. Under his management the Columbia Law School soon became one of the foremost in the country. At first he was almost the only lecturer, but one by one other chairs were created. Dr. Dwight resigned the wardenship two years before his death in 1892; and methods of instruc-, tion have since been adopted which are not dependent, as his were, upon his own extraordinary gift of exposition. The course of instruction has been lengthened and strengthened year by year, and the staff of instructors has been increased, while the students have also the privilege of attending the lectures on public law, on Roman law, and on constitutional history given by the professors of the School of Political Science. i In 1864, six years after the beginning of the School of Law, Columbia founded a School of Mines, which proved its usefulness at the very first, and which soon attained to a foremost position among the technological institutes of America. By degrees it has widened its scope, until it has courses not only in mining engineering, but also in civil, mechanical, electrical, and sanitary engineering. It is, in fact, a school of applied science in a very wide sense of the term. More than that, it is also a school of architecture, having at the head of this department Mr. "William R. Ware. Perhaps the School of Mines, narrow as its name is, offers as much instru...