METHODS OF INSTRUCTION AT AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS-COLUMBIA COLLEGE. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT METHODS OF INSTRUCTION AT AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS.-II. COL- COLUMBIA LAW TIMES. VOL. VI. MARCH, 1893. No. 6. THE GEORGE RICHARDS. 'HE extension of the course at Columbia Law School to three years in place of two has broadened the curriculum to include more prominently a number of important branches of study, to which only meagre attention could be given under the old system existing prior to 1891. Among these must be mentioned the law of insurance, in which an elective class from the students of the middle class are instructed by Mr. George Richards, a member of the bar of New York and the subject of this sketch. Mr. Richards was born in Boston, March 23d, 1849. His father, the Rev. George Richards, was for many years the pastor of the Central Congregational Church in that City, and for several years before his death was a fellow of the Corporation of Yale College. One of Mr. Richards' great-grandfathers was Aaron Dickinson Woodruff, for more than twenty years Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, and another was Brigadier-General Jedediah Huntington, who was in command of the Connecticut line during the war of the Revolution, retiring only with the disbandonment of the continental army in 1783, and who selected and recommended to Washington the present site of West Point for the National Military Academy, so that Mr. Richards' pedigree, as well as his personal choice, entitles him to his position as an active practitioner at the bar, in addition to his more peaceful office of lecturer at the School of Law. In 1868 Mr. Richards entered Yale College, in a class the largest up to that date, and was graduated in 1872 with the stand of "high oration." During his senior year he was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, and a member of the College Glee Clnb, and all through his college course he occupied a place on the University baseball nine, taking the position of catcher early in Freshman year, and in senior year making the best batting score on the Yale side in the matches against Harvard. From 1872 to 1874 he taught Latin, Mathematics and English composition in the Edwards Place School at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1974 began the study of law under the instruction of Prof Dwight at Columbia Law School. Upon graduation two years later he entered |