This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt:... THE MONROE DOCTRINE; THE POLK DOCTRINE; AND THE DOCTRINE OF ANARCHISM. There is a thought to-day in the minds of all of us to which I shall not refrain from giving expression at the outset. It is one of gratitude for the services, regret for the departure, and hope for the unbroken rest and enjoyment of the retiring Dean of the Yale Law School. My own gratitude goes to Dr. Wayland as a sort of inheritance, for over forty years ago, in a remote Western college, my first lessons in Moral Science and Intellectual Philosophy were taught from his honored father's text-books; yours is of that more intimate character that comes from seeing the son take the torch from the father's hands and bear it blazing forward over your own pathway. May I venture further on an expression of the pleasure given to a great body of college-bred men throughout the length and breadth of the United States, and especially to almost every man who in the past quarter of a century has had to do, in however humble a way, with the foreign service of his country, by the continued duty here of the present acting Dean? To those who learned Morals and International Law from the tongue or pen of a former eminent President of Yale, no work of a "Woolsey can fail to be weighty. In looking over some of the impressive addresses called out by The Profesyour Commencement in later years, I have observed that the 8to"-not learned speakers have generally had something to say more ue' directly to the graduating class, and that this has been reserved for the conclusion of their remarks. The little I have in this kind is so simple that we may as well have done with it at once. I merely wish to express the hope that as you go out with the training and under the inspiration of Yale, it is to be the profession...