ended
beyond his legal labors, for he was well known through his scholarly
investigations in the early history of the State. His courses, which
might so easily have been perfunctory, were on a par with those of his
distinguished confreres, stimulating and profound and sometimes
punctuated with a dry wit, well illustrated by his epigram that "some
men live by their practice and some by their practices."

Thomas M. Cooley, the youngest one of this group and the only one to
make his home in Ann Arbor, probably, in his later years, gave more
distinction to the University than any other teacher upon its long
rolls. He became known, not only nationally but internationally, for his
great work on "Constitutional Limitations" which will probably always be
the standard work on the American Constitution. This appeared in 1868.
He was also the author of many other books, including a "History of
Michigan." During his service of twenty-one years on the State Supreme
Bench, the Court acquired a national reputation. At the time of his
death he was a member of the first Interstate Commerce Commission. His
home, which stood on the site the Union now occupies, and which for nine
years was used as the Union Club House, was long a center of the
intellectual and social life of Ann Arbor. One of his pupils, William R.
Day, '70, now of the United States Supreme Court, says of him: "Here was
a man of world-wide fame as a jurist--the author of a book which is at
once the greatest authority upon the subject of constitutional
limitations upon our government, and a classic in legal
literature--whose recreations seemed to consist in change of occupation,
and whose energies seemed never to tire."

The enrolment in the new school grew with even greater rapidity than had
that of the Medical School during its first years. By 1911 the Law
School, as it came to be known after 1910, had given 9,041 degrees,
almost equaling the 9,225 granted up to that time by the Literary
College and more than double the 4,260 degrees granted by the Medical
School. The balance of attendance, however, has been with the Literary
College since 1897, when the requirement in the Law School was increased
to three years. It must be understood, too, that any comparison of this
character between the Law and the Literary Departments can only be on a
quantitative basis, for the traditional four years' work had always been
demanded in the Literary College; whereas in early days, the