designations lasted, all the powers and duties of corporation counsel. He had much to do with the drafting of many of the more important statutes, affecting New York City, that have been enacted of recent years.. He wrote certain parts of the Greater New York Charter, and was an acknowledged authority on the interpretation of that instrument. He was counsel for the city in nearly all litigation relating to assessments for local improvements, and was a leading expert in that branch of law.

81-Allan Wallace Paige, died from appendicitis in Chicago, Ill., on July 27. He had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession since graduation, having been admitted to practice in the staţe and United States courts in 1881 and in the New York courts in 1885 As general counsel for the Connecticut Railway & Lighting Company, he secured from the State of Connecticut valuable charters for street railway, light, water and gas companies, and these he was able subsequently to merge and dispose of to the New Haven system. In 1882 he represented Bridgeport in the lower house of the general assembly of Connecticut, becoming assistant clerk of the House in 1883, clerk in 1884, and the next year clerk of the Senate. In 1891 he was elected speaker of the house, and in 1905 became a state senator, and in that year was chairman of the judiciary committee.

'93-John Q. Tilson has been elected a member of the Repubican State Central Committee from the Eighth Senatorial District of Connecticut.

'94 Percy Finlay died in Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 14. He graduated with the Class of 1892 from Yale Academic, having received an Oration appointment in Junior and Senior years. He then entered the Yale Law School, receiving the degree of LL.B., cum laude, in 1894

'95-The death of John Adam Bellis, on Nov. 5, 1911, has not previously been recorded in these columns.

'95 and '97-Charles G. Morris has recently been appointed state civil service commissioner by Governor Baldwin, for a term of six years.

'96-Robert S. Alexander has been appointed judge of the City Court of Danbury. His address is 76 Deer Hill Avenue, Danbury, Conn.

'98-A daughter, Frances Mary, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Gaines on Sept. 2.

'01 The address of Ferris Faulkner is Kraft Avenue, Bronxville, N. Y.

05-Thomas W. Connally, alumni secretary of the University of Georgia, has been elected an alumni trustee of Emory College, Oxford, Ga.

'05-A daughter, Catherine, was born to Mr. and Mrs. William D. Embree in New York City on July 1.

'06-A second son, Willard, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cates of Baltimore, Md, on Aug. 19.

06-A daughter. Pauline Martha, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Andros Brooks of Minneapolis, Minn., on Sept. 20. Brocks is now residing at 2437 Park Avenue, that city.

09-Ralph C. Bennett has been appointed instructor of law in the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.

'09 Charles R. Crossett, Jr.. is now with the Alexander Hamilton Institute of New York, with office at 161 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. His residence address is 16 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.

09-R. Hunter McQuestion has been nominated by the Republican party for the Assembly in the First Assembly District of Kings County, New York City, for the election to be held on November 4. His nomination has been indorsed by the Independence League party. McQuestion is a lawyer at 165 Broadway, New York City. News of his 'election has just been received.

'10-Howard W. Adams recently delivered addresses before the School of Law of Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind., and the Indianapolis Bar Association on the subject, “Impressions of Law Schools, Courts, and Lawyers of Foreign Lands." Adams gave an account of his experiences and observations in the law schools of the Universities of Berlin, Paris, and Madrid, in which he studied, and his impressions of the law courts and lawyers of the countries of Europe, northern Africa and Asia, which he visited in his recent trip around the world.

'10-A second son, Henry A, 2nd, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Kircher of Belleville, Ill., on June 30.

'10 The marriage of Ida Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Josephson, and Herman Alofsin, 2nd, took place in Newport, R. I., on Aug. 19. Mr. and Mrs. Alofsin reside at 18 Sturtevant Avenue, Norwich, Conn. Alofsin's business address is 208 Main Street, that place.

'10-A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Devon Heald of Dayton, Ohio, on June 8. He has been named Charles Devon Heald, 2nd.

'10-George A. Stone died at his home in New Haven on October 2nd.

'11-Charles E. Bittenger, who, since graduation, has been associated with his father in the practice of law in York, Pa., is a candidate for city councilman.

'11-Francis W. Smith is in the Senior Class of the New York State Normal College, Troy. N. Y. His address is 3 Elberson Place, Albany, N. Y.

'11-The marriage of Miss Theresa Victorine Stanford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Stanford of New Haven, Conn., and Harold Edward Tierney, took place in St. John's R. C. Church on June 6. Mr. and Mrs. Tierney will reside in Englewood, N. J., where Tierney is practicing law.

Ex-'11-The engagement is announced of Miss Edith Logan, daughter of Mrs. John A. Logan, to Dewees W. Dilworth.

'11-During the past two weeks, Clement R. Wood delivered several lectures on socialism, in Northern Alabama. In the recent election for president of the Board of Commissioners of Birmingham, Ala., he received the second largest number of votes.

'11-Kern B. Fontaine is representing the Standard Oil Company of New York in Swatow, China. His permanent home address is 4216 Queen Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Minn.

'12-A son, Joseph Gordon, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Allard, Jr., on Sept. 19. Allard has been elected city attorney for Lordsburg, Cal., by the unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees of that place, and has recently opened an office for the general practice of law in the First National Bank Building there

'13-The marriage of Miss Marguerite Lawton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs James Lawton of Middletown, Conn., and Patrick Brett O'Sullivan took place in St. John's Church, Middletown, Conn, on June 19. Peter M. Kennedy, '08S., acted as best man. O'Sullivan has recently been appointed corporation counsel of Derby, Conn.

'13-Thompson Dean is practicing law at 185 Church Street, New Haven, Conn., in the office of John Elliott, 95 and '971..

'13-All members of the Class are urged to send changes in address to David L. Daggett, 42 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.

'13-Irving M. Engel is practicing law in the office of Stokly, Scrivner & Dominick, with offices at 801 First National Bank Building, Birmingham, Ala.

'13-Laurence F. Lee has opened an office for the practice of law in Albuquerque, N. Mex.

'13-Donald W. Young is practicing law in Las Cruces, N. Mex., with his father, under the firm name of Young & Young.

Henry Stoddard, John W. Bristol, Henry C. White, Leonard M. Daggett, Samuel H. Fisher and Thomas Hooker, Jr., have associated for the practice of law under the firm name of Bristol & White, with offices in the First National Bank Building, New Haven. All are Yale men.

The French Bar is an institution of great antiquity, and of perennial youth. Its roots run deep into the past, and its influence from the beginning, and up to this day, has been great upon legislation, upon jurisprudence, upon public opinion, and national policy.

The germ of the French Bar may be traced back to the time when there were saints among the kings, when the clerics no longer sufficed to carry gratuitously the burden of sustaining the demands of litigants, and when Saint Louis reigned in France, in the latter part of the XIIIth century.

A decree of Philip the Bold in 1274 and a later one in 1291, subjected advocates to a common discipline, and even at that early date, required them to take an oath, that they would plead none but just causes; would never demand an honorarium exceeding 30 livres; would never use opprobrious language, nor entail vexatious delays.

In 1327, under Philippe de Valois, letters patent were issued regulating the Bar of the Chatelet, which was the criminal jurisdiction of the Paris District; and a few years later a roll of advocates, or as we may more conveniently call them, barristers, was prescribed, upon which every barrister who took his oath was to be duly inscribed. It was about this period, that the separation of avocats and avoués-barristers and solicitors-was recognized in an ordinance prohibiting the exercise of both functions by one person; and by the same ordinance "prevarication" on the part of counsel was a cause for exclusion from the bar and from all royal offices.

Notwithstanding this separation of functions between barrister and solicitor, shortly after this ordinance, there was organ