TO HONOR DEAN LANGDELL.

On Tuesday, June 25, the day before Commencement, the Harvard Law School Association will hold its ninth annual meeting. The occasion will be specially noteworthy because it will mark the completion by Professor Christopher Columbus Langdell, the Dean of the Law School, of twenty-five years of service in that position. The association has made arrangements to observe the anniversary in a fitting manner, and the council has invited all the members to join in expressing their grateful recognition of the debt owed to Professor Langdell, not only by the Law School, but by the cause of legal education throughout the English-speaking world." The business meeting, for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may come before it, will be held at 11 a.m. in Austin Hall.

At the close of the business meeting, the members of the association, with their invited guests, will form in procession and march to Sanders Theatre, where, at twelve o'clock, an oration will be delivered by Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., D. C. L., of London, England, who is corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford.

After the oration the members of the association, with their invited guests, will again form in procession and march to Massachusetts Hall, where, at 1.30 o'clock, dinner will be served. James C. Carter, LL.B., '53, of New York, the president of the association, will preside. It is expected that, in addition to Professor Langdell and President Eliot, Chief Justice Fuller '55, and Justice Brown '59, of the Supreme Court of the United States, Secretary of State Olney, LL.B., '58, Justice Holmes, LL.B., '66, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Joseph H. Choate, LL.B., '54, of New York, Frank W. Hackett '61, of Washington, and Gustavus H. Wald, LL.B., '75, of Cincinnati, and others will speak. An unusually large attendance is expected, and it is hoped that every past member of the school, even if he cannot be present at the celebration, will show his sympathy for Harvard's great work in legal education by joining the association before that date.

The association was organized on September 23, 1866. It now has 1689 members. The following facts will serve to show the development and the growing influence of the school since the association was organized: Up to 1886 the Langdell system of study had not been adopted in any other law school. Since 1886 it has been introduced, to a greater or less extent, in the following named law schools: Columbia, New York; Metropolis, New York; Northwestern University, Chicago; Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California; and Iowa State University. The collections of select cases to be used in connection with instruction have been introduced also in seven other American law schools. The number of students at the Harvard Law School, for six years prior to the academic year 1886, averaged 154. The number is now 404. Since 1886 the courses of instruction at the school have increased from 18 to 26, and the number of hours of instruction a week from 31 to 50. In April, 1887, the "Harvard Law Review," edited and published by students of the law school, was founded. It has been conducted since with constantly growing success and influence, and now numbers 901 paying subscribers. The law School and the association have now in preparation a joint quinquennial catalogue of the past members of the school and the present members of the association. The catalogue (which will be distributed free to members of the association) will contain:

1. An alphabetical list of the past members of the school.

2. A list of the past members of the school arranged according to the dates of their leaving the school.

3. A geographical list of the past members of the school now living, with their addresses, arranged according to the states, cities or towns in which they now reside. This geographical list will indicate which of the past members of the school are also members of the association.

It is intended that the catalogue shall be ready by Commencement. The committee of arrangements in charge of the celebration are: James C. Carter of New York, Joseph B. Warner of Cambridge, Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, Winthrop H. Wade of Boston, and Philip S. Abbot of Cambridge.