William Blaikie '66, well known as a lawyer and an author, an enthusiastic advocate of physical culture, died of apoplexy at his home in New York city on Tuesday. After graduating from the Law School in 1868, he entered the office of Chandler, Shattuck and Thayer in Boston, and in the same year was made Justice of the Peace. During the next year he was chief of the Pardon Bureau in the office of United States Attorney General in Washington, and since that time practiced law in New York, where he was made Commissioner of the United States Court of Claims in 1891.

Mr. Blaikie stroked the University crew which defeated Yale in 1866, and afterward continued to show ardent enthusiasm for rowing and other athletics by writing on these subjects. In 1879 he published "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So," of which more copies have been sold than of any other book written on athletics.