ALUMNI PRESIDENT ELECTED

The current issue of the Harvard Bulletin announces the election of John Chipman Gray '59, LL.D., Royal Professor of Law and senior member of the firm of Ropes, Gray, and Gorham as president of the Alumni Association of the University.

After graduation from College, Professor Gray entered the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1861. He was in the Civil War serving in many capacities, eventually as major and judge advocate of United States Volunteers on the staff of Generals Foster and Gillmore. In 1869, he became a lecturer in the Harvard Law School where he was made Storey Professor, of Law in 1875. In 1883 he was promoted to the Royal Professorship which has been associated with his name for nearly thirty years.

Professor Gray has written a number of legal treatises including "Restraints on Alienation" (1883, second edition 1905); "Rule against Perpetuities," (1886); he has also compiled the well-known "Selected Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property." It is commonly known that Professor Gray has more than once refused a position on the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Professor Gray is the thirty-fifth president of the Alumni Association. He directly succeeds Major Henry L. Higginson '55, the founder of the Harvard Union and the donor of Soldiers Field.