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...Benjamin R. Curtis, who succeeds the late Judge Churchill on the municipal bench of Boston, graduated from Harvard as a member of the class...
...worth the winning or not) are seldom obtained by the clever. A youth of this stamp takes the chief seat at a club or a dinner party, and sometimes obtains a butterfly reputation in literature, but he does not shine at the bar, he will never sit upon the bench, or arrive at eminence among the faculty, These positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive...
Judge William Crowninshield Endicott, secretary of war, graduated from Harvard in 1847, studied at the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar about 1850. He remained on the bench until 1882, when he resigned on account of ill health, He is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard college...
...Judge Holmes, who was a most popular professor in the Law School before he was appointed to the bench, the Gazette says: "Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is one of the youngest men that ever sat upon the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, and he looks even very much younger than he is. It is difficult to realize that 22 years ago he was an officer in the Federal army and was left for dead upon a Southern battlefield, for he does not, as he sits upon the bench, look a day over 35. In view of his recognized learning...
...order, according to the rank which their parents held in the social world. A good story is told of a shoe maker's son who came to Harvard. When asked as to what station his father held in life, he replied that he held a position on the bench. The student was accordingly ranked among the upper men of his class...