He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Chi Delta Theta.

[2] After graduating from Yale, Smith attended Cornell Law School, where one of his professors was future New York governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

He then moved to Syracuse, where he finished his law studies and passed the bar in 1893.

[3] Smith was appointed a clerk for the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention.

[4] He was Clerk of the Committee on General Laws in the New York State Senate in 1894[5] and 1895.