Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r. As a leader of pub-lic o()inion his purity of motive and his moralcourage never failed. As an educational chief-tain his authority and power were growing (>veryday. and his acliievements were substantial and permanent. If he had lived five years longerhis popular reputation would have l)een as wideas the country. Hut he was well known amongmen of leadership everywhere, and was held insuch esteem by those who knew him that theirwords of confidence and approbation were al-ways without stint or limit. Walter Barnard Hill was born in Georgia inSeptember. 1S.)1. and was, therefore, in his fifty-fifth year when i)neumonia claimed him as avictim, on the 28th of December. 1905. Hisfatlier was a judge in tieorgia, and his motherwas a member of a distinguished family. Hiscollegiate education and his legal studies werepursued in his native State, and by the time hewas twenty-two years old he was practising lawin association with the Hon. Nathaniel E. Harris, A GREAT CITIZEN OF GEORGIA. 175
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CO) _vrij;!u, 1905, l>y 1. J. Hall. THE LATE CHANCELLOR WALTER BARXARD HILL, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.(Born, September 9, 1851; died, December 28, 19a5.) 1T() THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REFIEiV OF REI^/EIVS. one of his own colle<ie friends, in tlit; city ofMacon. Mr. Hill liad fully revealed as astudent liis fine intellectual talents and his loftymoral qualities ;■ so that the usefulness and dis-tinction whicli afterward came to him were con-fidently expected by his instructors and thosewho knew him. He honored the bar of Georgia,and received all the honors of the profession inreturn. He served as president of the State barassociation, helped again and again to i-evise thelegal code of the State, made brilliant addressesbefore legal bodies elsewhere in tlie country, and,in short, was everything in influence andexample that a great lawyer ought to be to hisState as well as to his profession. Being of a scholarly nature and habit, andhimself a graduate of the State university, itw

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