Description of ike 
 New Quarters of the School 
 
Description of the New Quarters 
 of the School. 
 
 The site of the Northwestern University Building in which 
 the new quarters of the School of Law are situated, is one of 
 historic interest. The remodeled Tremont House, a massive 
 structure, is the fourth building of that name to occupy the spot. 
 Since 1833, the year of Chicago’s incorporation as a town, the 
 caravansaries that were successively erected here became the 
 frequent sojourning-place of the most famous persons who 
 from time to time came to Chicago. Here was begun the mem- 
 orable debate between Lincoln and Douglas in 1858; here were 
 the headquarters of Lincoln’s friends during the nominating con- 
 vention of 1860; here Douglas lay on his deathbed; here took 
 place, at the close of the war, the soldiers’ reunion, in which 
 Grant and other distinguished generals participated; and a long 
 list might be made of other names, eminent in all fields, whose 
 memories will ever cling to this central spot in the life of Chicago. 
 Many of these notable persons and episodes are recalled in the 
 speeches made on May 23 last, at the reception to Professor Hurd 
 — (the report of which was printed in the August Bulletin of 
 the School). “It seems to me,” said Mr. Elbridge Keith, on that 
 occasion, “that in no other spot in Illinois have there been so 
 many associations with that which has made history. There 
 could be no more inspiring spot where you could go to get stim- 
 ulus for noble deeds and noble thoughts. You should have the 
 heritage which those noble spirits here hand down to you.” 
 
 Having in mind the interesting associations of the spot, the 
 Faculty have endeavored to equip the School’s quarters in such a 
 way as to maintain the dignity and interest of the place, and also 
 to be worthy of the best traditions of the profession whose in- 
 terests it serves. The object has been to provide a fitting home 
 for legal scholarship, by reviving amidst daily work the historic 
 
past of the School and of the profession at large, and by embody- 
 ing in the surroundings all that could inspire the student with 
 faith in the achievements of his predecessors in the law and with 
 resolution for his own part of that great work in the future. 
 
 The School’s quarters are entered from the landing on the 
 third floor in the northwest angle of the Building. All the wood- 
 trimmings are of oak, in weather-stain; the wall coloring in all 
 the corridors is yellow; in the Assembly Room, red; in Booth Hall, 
 bull; and in the Library, Hurd Hall, Hoyne Hall, and the remain- 
 ing rooms, green. 
 
 Opposite the entrance comes first the General Office. Portraits 
 of the Presidents of the Board of Trustees of the old Union 
 College of Law, and of the members of the Law Committee of 
 the present Trustees of Northwestern University, are on the wall, 
 and suggest the continuity of the School’s existence under forty- 
 four years of successive administrations. So, also, in the Dean’s 
 Office, on the left, portraits of the former Deans of the School, 
 beginning with Hon. Henry Booth, bring down the tradition from 
 1859. Similarly, in the Faculty Room (to the right of the General 
 Office, beyond the Secretary’s Office), a collection of the portraits 
 of all the past and present members of the Faculty preserves the 
 memory of those who have taken part in the work of the School, 
 and includes many w T ho have been distinguished in the local and 
 national life of the profession. This collection is still incomplete, 
 in regard to many of the older generation; but it is hoped that 
 the missing likenesses may before long be secured. Over the fire- 
 place is appropriately affixed the handsome seal of the University, 
 in colored plastic relief, done by Mr. F. Parsons, of Boston, for 
 the School. The heavy settles, council-table, and bookcases are 
 designed to give an effect of scholarly dignity; and the room will 
 be an appropriate one for the city meetings of other University 
 governing bodies besides the Faculty of Law. Entering the north 
 corridor, a bronze bust of Lincoln appears, placed against the 
 west wall. It is cast after the model by Bissell, owner of the 
 death mask, and was presented to the School by the Booth 
 Chapter of the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. Beneath it, on 
 
a bronze plate, is the inscription: “In the old Tremont House 
 That formerly stood on this spot Abraham Lincoln, During his 
 practice at the bar, Often sojourned, And from its balcony In 1858 
 He engaged in one of his memorable debates With Stephen A. 
 Douglas. Presented to the Law School of the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity by Booth Chapter of Phi Delta Phi.” 
 
 Facing east from the Lincoln bust, one sees, in two lines on 
 either side of the corridor, a series of plaster busts, representing 
 the lawyer-orators of various ages and countries — Demosthenes, 
 Cicero, Burke, Choate, Clay, Webster, and Douglas. Others 
 should, of course, be added to these, to make the representation 
 more complete — for instance, those of Erskine, Gratton, Wirt, 
 Prentiss; but no likenesses of them in plaster seem to be in 
 existence. This series, fittingly culminating with the author of 
 the speech at Gettysburg, is intended to typify for the aspiring 
 student the function of the lawyer as a persuader of men. 
 It complements the series in the Library typifying the lawyer as 
 a scholar and jurist. 
 
 On the right of the north corridor is the Court Room, fitted in 
 the usual manner with judge's desk, clerk's desk, witness-box, 
 jury-box, attorneys' table, and bar. This room is known as 
 Hoyne Hall, after Hon. Thomas Hoyne, who founded the School 
 in 1859. Over the desk is a crayon portrait of the founder, 
 presented by his son, Thomas M. Hoyne, Esq., an alumnus of the 
 School. In this room the Practice Court holds its sessions; and 
 accordingly the walls have been hung with a collection of por- 
 traits representing the personages of particular interest to the 
 future practitioners at the local bar. These include the judges of 
 trial courts in Illinois, past and present, the judges of Federal 
 courts in Illinois, and distinguished members of the Illinois bar 
 in former generations. This collection is a unique possession, 
 and would have been impossible to create, but for the generous 
 courtesy of Hon. James B. Bradwell, formerly judge of the Cook 
 County Court and now editor of the Chicago Legal News. The 
 owner of an unrivaled collection of photographs of lawyers and 
 judges, accumulated during forty years at the Illinois bar, he 
 
has had these reproductions especially made from his plates for 
 presentation to the School. The collection of portraits of the 
 judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois, in the Library, is also a 
 part of the same gift. 
 
 On the north side of the north corridor are three rooms des- 
 tined for the use of the Legal Aid Bureau (a charitable work soon 
 to be undertaken by the School) ; at present they are used for 
 the storage and sale of books. Beyond them is the Alumni Room, 
 an apartment intended to serve the convenience and attract the 
 interest of visiting alumni. It is exclusively at their disposal, 
 and is fitted with lockers, lavatory, bookcases, and tables, so as to 
 afford them all the facilities of an office, while in Chicago, for 
 the transaction of business. The walls are to be hung with por- 
 traits of the past and present officers of the Alumni Association, 
 of alumni holding public office, and of class groups; but this 
 collection is as yet incipient only, and much remains to be done 
 by the alumni to make it fairly complete. Beyond this room is 
 the Law Club Room, for meetings of the fraternities, sessions of 
 the club, moot-courts, and the like. 
 
 Last on the east is the Assembly Room, a long and spacious 
 apartment, comfortably fitted for rest, reading, and conversation. 
 This apartment is intended as the social headquarters of the 
 School, a common meeting-ground for professors and students. 
 For a city School, remote from the surroundings of a college 
 campus, such a center of social life is indispensable. Dedicated 
 to the spirit of scholarly fellowship, it will conduce to that 
 friendly converse and intimate understanding which cultivate 
 college loyalty and form some of the most pleasurable memories 
 and useful associations of after professional life. The furnish- 
 ings have all been adopted to emphasize the fraternal and 
 professional tradition and spirit. Over the fireplace is 
 another copy of the University seal, in colored plastic re- 
 lief. Highbacked settles, at the east end of the room, 
 framing the fireplace, form an inglenook. A small library 
 of legal biographies and annals, celebrated trials, and works of 
 general reference, is placed here; and a list of magazines and 
 
newspapers is maintained by students’ subscription. On the 
 north wall is a bronze relief of Lincoln, the gift of Mr. Michael 
 Merwin Hart, of the class of 1904, and on the west wall is a 
 colored plastic relief of Washington (done by Mr. Farsons). 
 Affixed to the south wall, in the inglenook, is an oak shield, bear- 
 ing in bronze letters the traditional motto of the students’ 
 cheer: “Ex delicto Ex contractu This Is Law.” The walls 
 bear, also, a varied collection of pictures, including a num- 
 ber of interesting cartoon-caricatures, in color, of celebrated 
 English judges, views of the English Inns of Court and of the 
 courts of justice in England and various foreign countries, views 
 of the homes of Marshall and of Webster, and pictures of other 
 places and persons having an interest to the the profession. The 
 Assembly Room is to be known as Lowden Hall, after Frank O. 
 Lowden, Esq., the present President of the Alumni Association. 
 
 The east corridor, leading south from the Assembly Room, is 
 fitted with two hundred full-length lockers. On the right is a 
 lecture-room, known as Hurd Hall, after Harvey B. Hurd, LL.D., 
 in April last, after forty-three years of service. His portrait 
 hangs on the west wall ; and around the room are hung the group- 
 portraits of the judges of the various State Supreme Courts. At the 
 end of the east corridor is the main lecture-room, known as Booth 
 Hall, after Hon. Henry Booth, first Dean of the School, who served 
 from 1859 till 1892. Over the entrance is his portrait in crayon, 
 presented to the School several years ago by the Booth Chapter 
 of the fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. Behind the lecture rostrum 
 is a series of wall panels, concealing a long blackboard, the 
 central ones sliding to uncover the board for use. In front of 
 the end panels, on brackets, are busts of Socrates, on the left, 
 and of Blackstone, on the right — the former, as the great master 
 of dialectics and argument, typifying one chief method of class 
 instruction, and the latter, as the classical model of dogmatic 
 exposition, typifying the other chief method of instruction by 
 lectures. Considerable search had failed to discover a bust of 
 Blackstone in this country, and the present one was accordingly 
 made for the School by Miss Alice Cooper, of Chicago; a photo- 
 
gravure of the Blackstcne statue at Oxford and two engravings 
 by different hands, served for the likeness. Around the walls of 
 Booth Hall are disposed a series of portraits (chiefly engravings 
 and etchings) of the most eminent judges in English and Ameri- 
 can legal history — Mansfield, Eldon, Marshall, Story, Kent, and 
 others. The English portraits, with others in the Library (in- 
 cluding the work of such hands as Bartolozzi’s), were selected for 
 the School last winter, on a visit to London, by Mr. Charles C. 
 Soule, of Boston, aided by Mr. William V. Kellen, of Boston, a con- 
 noisseur who possesses the finest collection of legal engravings in 
 the United States. The etching of Henry Wheaton, LL. D., 
 America’s most distinguished international jurist, was presented 
 to the school by Mr. Kellen; it is of particular interest, being an 
 imprint from the only plate in existence, made by the donor in 
 connection with the recent celebration at Brown University of 
 the centenary of Wheaton’s birth. 
 
 Leaving Booth Hall by the west door, a short corridor, open- 
 ing on each side into study rooms for students’ clubs, leads into 
 the Library, which extends around the south and west sides of 
 the building. The bookcases here are arranged to form alcoves; 
 in each alcove is a reading table fitted with a double set of elec- 
 tric-light standards. At one end of the west aisle, opposite the 
 marble clock (the gift of Hon. William A. Dyche) is another 
 copy of the University seal, affixed to the wall and dominating the 
 room. On brackets at the abutments of the alcoves, facing into 
 the aisle, are placed busts of Brougham, Bacon, Marshall, Hamil- 
 ton and Shaw, typifying the legal scholars and jurists of our his- 
 tory. Thus far no other likenesses to complete this series have 
 been obtainable; but those of Hale, Bentham, Kent, and a few 
 others, ought certainly to be added, and it is hoped that in time 
 they will be. This series forms a fitting complement to that of 
 the lawyer-orators in the north corridor. On the walls of each 
 alcove above the bookcases, is continued the collection of por- 
 traits of eminent lawyers and judges. To study the Constitution 
 under the gaze of Marshall himself, or peruse the doctrines of 
 equity in sight of the compelling countenance of their creator 
 
Eldon, cannot but give one a more realizing acquaintance with 
 those great judges who have left the impress of their personality 
 upon the law. 
 
 In closing, the attention of the alumni is again called to the 
 various parts of these collections that remain to be completed. 
 Only through the active and generous help of the alumni can this 
 be done. Of all who may read this account the special request is 
 now made to cooperate with the School, in any manner that may 
 happen to be within their power, to perfect the equipment briefly 
 described herein.