The Twentieth Century

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Excerpt from The Twentieth Century: An Address Delivered Before the Graduating Classes at the Seventy-First Anniversary of Yale Law School, on June 24th, 1895 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Graduating Classes: It would be mere affectation in me to deny the pleasure I feel in escaping for a day from the tiresome monotony of judicial labor, and standing once more, a student still, among students, within the precincts of this ancient university. In the wonted aspect of these shaded streets, in the familiar presence of these college buildings and in the comparative repose of this beautiful city, I seem to breathe again the air of the cloister, and to recall as if from yesterday a similar gathering of classmates met together for that final parting which marks the beginning of professional life. In the almost two-score years which have elapsed since I last stood before a similar audience here, the thrifty college of less than 700 students has expanded into the great university of 2, 400, the familiar row of brick, which represented so well the modest architectural taste of the eighteenth century, is giving way to the sumptuous structures needed to gratify the aspirations of the nineteenth - changes which are only a reproduction upon a smaller scale of the more important changes, which have taken place throughout the world and given to the period which is now drawing to its close, its material and social importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.