The Tappan Professorship

The Regents of the Universiiy Jid one thoroujfhly eommendable tbing at tbeir special meeting held last week. We ref'er to the establishment ot' the Tappan professorship in the Law Department and to the appointment of our distinguished fellow citizen, ex-Gov Peloh as its first incumbent. ïhe nunicrous public positions which Gov Felch lias held (Member of the Legisl iture, Auditor-General, Circuit nnd Suprema Court Judge, Governor, United Btates Senator, Commissioner to adjust the California land claims), and the manner in which the duties of each office were discharged, have made him not only widely known but as widely esteeined, and it is no dispurageinent to the present popular and able faonlty to say that his appointment will offer an inducement to students of the law in this and other States to seek their professional training here. Though advanced in years Gov. Felch is a close student in his professiori, a painstaking and hard-worker, an exeinplar for his younger associates. Accustoined to thoroughly master the cases confided to liis care, vvhethcr important or minor, he will teach his studcnts thtit no slipjhod work will inakethem niitstcrsof 'lic rudiment ot the law, gmund tbini in it predice, or give thcm pronnse of i'vun re.pcctable iuediocrity, to say nothiug of snccesa or eminence.