The present volume is the second work published under the
imprint of the Yale University Press in memory of Arthur P.
McKinstry, who died in New York City, July 21, 1921. Born
in Winnebago City, Minnesota, on December 22, 1881, he
was graduated from Yale College in 1905, and in 1907
received the degree of LL.B. magna cum laude from the
Yale Law School, graduating at the head of his class.
Throughout his career at Yale he was noted both for his
scholarship and for his active interest in debating, which
won for him first the presidency of the Freshman Union and
subsequently the presidency of the Yale Union. He was
also Class Orator in 1905, and vice- president of the Yale
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Following his graduation from the School of Law he entered
upon the practice of his profession in New York City and
early met with the success anticipated for him by his
friends,―his firm, of which he was the senior member,
being recognized at the time of his death as among the
most prominent of the younger firms in the city. He was
counsel for the Post- Graduate Hospital of New York, the
Heckscher Foundation for Children, of which he was also a
trustee, and from 1912 to 1914 served as associate
counsel to the Agency of the United States in the American
and British Claims Arbitration. By his untimely death the bar
of the City of New York lost a lawyer outstanding for his
ability, common sense, conscientiousness, and high sense
of justice; and Yale University lost an alumnus of whom she
was proud, who gave freely of his time and thought to his
class of 1905, to the development of the Yale School of
Law, and to the upbuilding of the Yale University Press,
which he served as counsel.
