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they were instinctively and chiefly lawyers and 

 judges. It simply means that whatever the Ed- 

 wards family has done it has done ably and nobly. 

 There is no greater test of intellectual majesty than 

 that which the practice of law puts upon a man. 

 When James Bryce pays his grand tribute to Dr. 

 Theodore "W. Dwight, president of Columbia Col- 

 lege law school, it signifies more intellectually than 

 to have said that he was president of the United 

 States. 



None of the Jukes had the equivalent of a com- 

 mon school education, while there are few of the 

 Edwards family that have not had more than that. 

 Few were satisfied with less than academy or semi- 

 nary if they did not go to college. There is not 

 a leading college in the country in which their 

 names are not to be found recorded. They have 

 not only furnished thirteen college presidents and 

 a hundred and more professors, but they have 

 founded many important academies and seminaries 

 in New Haven and Brooklyn, all through the New 

 England states, and in the Middle, Western, and 

 Southern states. They have contributed liberally 

 to college endowments. One gave a quarter of a 

 million as an endowment for Yale. 



In Yale alone have been more than 120 gradu- 

 ates. Among these are nearly twenty Dwights, 

 nearly as many Edwards, seven Woolseys, eight 

 Porters, five Johnsons, four Ingersolls, and several 

 of most of the following names: Chapin, Win- 

 throp, Shoemaker, Hoadley, Lewis, Mathers, Reeve, 



