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tion of strenuous, unflinching, and unremit ting assertion of his clients' rights with a just regard for the rights of others, and a careful consideration for the feelings of his opponent, he was the ideal lawyer and gentleman." The value of his services to the Law School cannot be better shown than by quoting that which was said of him by his colleagues, Judge Hare and Professor

Parsons, at the meet ing of the bar held after his death. Judge Hare said : —

in it much to repel and little to attract the student. These obstacles were surmounted by Coppee Mitchell as they could not have been by any ordi nary man. His grasp of principles, and the lu cidity of his exposition rendered plain much that would otherwise have been obscure; while his easyflowing and persuasive rhetoric relieved the mo notony of the subject, and made it easy for the student to persevere. "Considerable as were the services thus ren dered to the University and to the cause of legal education, they were not all. He had, as I have already stated, an impor "I was Coppee Mitch tant trust to fulfil as Dean ell's associate in the Law of the Faculty. How dif School of the Pennsylva ficult it must have been nia University for thirteen for a man in active prac years, and knew him well. tice at the bar to give the During that long period study requisite for the there was no jar, nor professor's chair, can only could there have been be known to those who without fault on my side. have endeavored to com I preceded him in the bine dissimilar pursuits. school some years, and Vet was Mr. Mitchell was his senior by many, obliged to turn aside from and I confidently believed either task to greet the that when I went his hand young men who desired would still be at the helm. to follow the study of the It never occurred to me law, and who found in that he would be the first him a counsellor whose to take leave of life and geniality and kindness work. showed that if need were "Mr. Mitchell was, as he would act as a friend. you are aware, Dean of P. PEMBERTON MORRIS. Here the qualities of his the Faculty, as well as heart were conspicuous, Professor of Real Estate, and it is to them that we may ascribe no incon Conveyancing, and Equity Jurisprudence. This siderable part of the measure jf success that has position gave scope for both sides of a liberal attended the Law School of the University." nature, his head and his heart, and each was exceptionally equal to such a task. Some men might Professor Parsons said : — have taught law as well, others have been as well fitted to represent the University, in their inter "In his relations as Dean of the Faculty, and in course with the students and the outer world, but his contact with the bar, Mr. Mitchell exhibited there are few who Could have performed both parts the tact and the judgment and the knowledge of with as much ability and success. The law of real men which were requisite in order to establish the estate is one of the most arid branches in the field Law School of the University upon its present footing. In this he showed the high qualities ofjurisprudence. Logical and accurate in all its de tails, as becomes a system originating in the age of which have always distinguished him. He pos the schoolmen, it may, when mastered, like other sessed that practical capacity to deal with his as ingenious mechanisms, gratify the intellect, but has sociates, and when he came in contact with them,