Address by Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, and Poem by D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., on the Dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the Michigan University

Authors

Thomas M. Cooley, University of Michigan Law School
D. Bethune Duffield, Detroit Board of Education

Document Type

Speech

Publication Date

1863

Abstract

A stirring address by Professor Cooley upon the occasion of the dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the first Law School Building. He begins: "Students in the Department of Law: While Michigan was yet a wilderness, only feeling along its borders the advancing tread of civilization, and only hearing here and there the sound of the woodman's axe, the wisdom of American statesmen made provision for the establishment in the territory of a great University...."

Comments

Accompanied by an untitled poem by D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., Detroit City Attorney.

Recommended Citation

Address by Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, and Poem by D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., on the Dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the Michigan University. Thursday, October 1, 1863. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published by the Law Class, 1863.