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of impressing them with his convictions by his discriminate between somewhat similar cases were persuasion. And this is only one illustration of the ones that were selected by him as topics for that trait. There were, of course, a great many instruction; but instead of stating the proposition other duties which devolved upon him as a repre in an abstract way — inasmuch as the instruction sentative of the Law School, in reference to the at the University is by cases — he always pre Bar of Philadelphia, because they had many other sented a case to a student, teaching the student

points of contact, and many other questions had how to handle it for himself, analyzing it into its to be considered and dealt with by him as the constituent elements, thus teaching him how to representative of the Faculty, in all of which he apply the principles of any particular case which acquitted himself well. As a Professor of the Law was under consideration, and how to distinguish School, he came in con between it and other tact with the students, similar or analogous not only while they were cases. Mr. Mitchell had, I say, beyond the state at the University, but ment of a mere abstract after they were gradu proposition, the faculty ated, when they were of popularizing the law. the Alumni of the Law He would present it not School; and he was in more direct contact with only in its naked form, but in a neat illustration, the students than any with an aptness and with other professor. He a directness that enabled took such personal in the student easily to grasp terest in their affairs that he was constantly con and understand the prin ciple involved. That is sulted by them in ref eminently important in a erence to the formation lecturer. Even in a court of their clubs, or of any I know how much a law organization they con yer's success may de templated while they pend upon his capacity were at the University, to present a proposition and even after they had in the various forms in left the University and which it will take shape still retained their inter in order to be sure that est in the institution it it will be fully understood self. Their agent in the E. SPENCER MILLER. by the court; and yet a University was Professor Mitchell. He had a court is supposed, from great many duties to perform; and this, among its experience, to almost intuitively understand the odier things, contributed to overwhelm him, to law, and to comprehend every element of any overtax his strength, and to break him down at a proposition that may be enunciated. Mr. Mitchell had the faculty of not only presenting a legal premature age. "In regard to his work as an instructor in the proposition in the ordinary systematic way in University, there are so many present who recall which it was developed, but in illustrating it by with distinctness his method of teaching, that it is examples which the student could hardly forget, hardly necessary for me to dwell upon it; but because they were so pat in the illustration of the point under discussion. His success was there was one quality about him which always im very great at the Law School as a lecturer. He pressed me, and which showed his skill as a lec turer. It was this : that his knowledge of the had a kind of magnetism in his address. Instead law was brought down to the very point, to the of mechanically delivering a lecture, it was his turning-point, on which its classification rests. nature to throw into it a certain amount of anima Those points of decisions which enabled him to tion, which always added to the weight of what •5