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...occasion of his third lecture on California. "Popular Government and Lynch Law in the Mines" was the subject. California, said Prof. Royce, was essentially an American community in all stages of her development. The "new comers of 1849" imbued a spirit of youthful energy into the old camps. Bayard Taylor tells of their industry, mirthfulness, hospitality and public spirit. He found that the first election resembled a "blind pool" of the present day, everyone voting on men and questions of which they know nothing. Among the laws and customs the idea of non-interference in private quarrels was very general...
...Parkman, Warner, Lodge, Fiske, various Adamses, Hale, Higginson, White, Story, Cranch, Scudder, Leland, DeForest, Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error...
Secretary Bayard is to deliver the commencement address at the University of Kansas...
Attorney-General George Gray, of Delaware, who is to succeed Senator Bayard in the Senate, is a graduate of Princeton and of the Harvard Law School...
...Thomas Francis Bayard, secretary of state, was educated at a private school, with a view to mercantile life, but later studied law with his father, who was then a member of the Senate. He was admitted...