cap and gown, was won and duly awarded." The records of the University show that many women won this degree, and were invested with its insignia.

"The legal schools of Bologna were so famous as to overshadow those established in other departments, but these also enjoyed great celebrity. Women won full degrees in medicine, and some were professors of anatomy.

“As far back as the thirteenth century, when the widely celebrated University numbered ten thousand students, many coming from England and Scotland, there were two women among its eminent professors,--Accorsa Accorso and Bettisia Gozzadini. The first filled the chair of philosophy, and was the daughter of the famous jurisconsult, Accorso, whose glossary of Roman law was, for years, authority with all European tribunals. Of Bettisia Gozzadini, it is related that she was created doctor of laws in 1236, and lectured publicly to the admiration of crowded audiences. "Mention is made by several writers of a very learned woman, who was also invested with the docter's degree, and wore the cap and gown, and who was a 'venerable woman' in 1354, Madonna Giovanna Buonsigniori by name. She was skilled in legal and philosophical lore, was accomplished in Latin and Greek, and discoursed in the German, Bohemian, Tuscan and Polish languages. The people of Bologna honor her name to this day.

"Every one is familiar with the story of the beautiful and learned professor, Novella d' Andrea, daughter of the eminent jurisconsult, Giovanni d' Andrea, distinguished in the fourteenth century. Christine de Pisan, in her "La Cité des Dames," gives a quaint sketch of Novella, which, perchance, the author received from the father of the fair woman professor. 'Giovanni d' Andrea so much loved his good and beautiful daughter, named Novella, that he taught her letters and law, so that when he was occupied with any care, he might send her to sit in his chair and teach his pupils. And so fair was she that a little curtain had to be drawn in front of her, lest her beauty should cause the thoughts of her listeners to wander, and her instruction be of no avail to them. And in this manner she many times supplied her father's place, who loved her so much, that, to bequeath her name to posterity, he gave a famous lecture from one of his treatises on law which he called after her, "The Novella.' The pictures of Novella show that she possessed the beauty accorded her by fame."

We regret that space will not permit us to copy more of this interesting and instructive article.

ARGUMENTS AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE, BY JOHN J. INGALLS, CAREFULLY EXAMINED AND COMPLETELY ANSWERED; BY D. P. LIVERMORE.This is an exhaustive and complete refutation of Senator Ingall's Forum article, which, by the way, is the weakest effort the distinguished Senator ever made. The subject was a new one to him, and he had not sufficiently examined it. He made the most egregious mistakes of fact and of logic.

THE CHICAGO LAW TIMES.

VOL. II.]

JULY, 1888.

MORRISON R. WAITE.

[No. 3.

MORRISON REMICK WAITE, late Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, November 29, 1816. His ancestors came from England in early colonial times and settled in Massachusetts, but removed to Lyme about the year 1677. One of the earliest whose name has been preserved was Thomas Waite, whose son Marvin was on the first electoral ticket of Connecticut after the revolution, and served nineteen times in the General Assembly, and as judge of the County Court for several years. Remick Waite, who married Susanna Matson, was a half brother of Judge Marvin Waite. The eldest son of Remick, Henry Matson, was born in Lyme, February 9, 1787; graduated at Yale College in 1809. A lawyer of learning and ability, he was successively elected to both the lower and higher branches of the State Legislature. In 1834, he was chosen an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and in 1854 was appointed Chief-Justice of that court, which office he held till he reached the age of 70 years, the limit prescribed by the State Constitution. He married a daughter of Col. Richard Selden, of Lyme, and granddaughter of Col. Samuel Selden, an officer of the revolutionary army. Morrison R. Waite is the oldest of the eight children of Chief-Justice Henry Matson and Maria Selden Waite.

When about fourteen years of age, he studied Latin and Greek at Bacon Academy, in the town of Colchester, Connecti

cut, under the preceptorship of Charles P. Otis.. Lyman Trumbull was then his school-mate and fellow student. It was there that young Waite fitted for Yale College, which he entered in 1833.

In 1837, he graduated with honor, in the same class with William M. Evarts, Edwards Pierpont, and Prof. Benj, Silliman, Jr.

After graduating he commenced studying law at Lyme, with his father, who was then a judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, and concluded his law studies with Samuel M. Young, a prominent attorney of Maumee City.

In 1838, he settled in Maumee City, Ohio, and in 1839, on his admission to the bar, formed a partnership with his former preceptor, Mr. Young. This connection continued with special success until 1850.

In 1849, he was elected to represent the Maumee District in the Ohio Legislature. After the expiration of his term, in 1850, his firm opened an office in Toledo, of which Mr. Waite took charge, and he was soon acknowledged as one of the leading advocates and counselors in Northwestern Ohio. One who often met him as opposing counsel, said that "his opinion on any question of law was always accepted as indisputable.”

In 1852, Mr. Young removed to Toledo and the firm of Young & Waite continued until Mr. Waite's youngest brother, Richard, came to Toledo, when the brothers entered into a partnership, which lasted until the senior partner's elevation to the Chief-Justiceship. During all these years, the firm had a very extensive practice.

Judge L. B. Otis, of this City, before whom Mr. Waite practiced during the seven years subsequent to his removal to Toledo, and who was, during that time Judge of the Toledo Court, says that the firm of Young & Waite was the leading law firm of the Maumee Valley, all the way from Fort Wayne to Toledo.

The following extracts are from a life of Chief-Justice Waite, published in Appleton's Annual for 1882, which has been pronounced by the family the most accurate of any sketch published up to that date: