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The Law School of the Tidane University. French language, qualifies him in an eminent degree for the performance of his labor as teacher of that branch of the law from which the Louisiana Code has been bodily taken. As a practitioner, he impresses one with the idea of exhaustive preparation and thorough acquaintance with the law bearing on his case. He is a perspicuous reasoner, and traces up a precedent to its parent principle

with unfailing logic. His argumentation is terse, direct, and car ries conviction with it by its evident applica tion to the matter in hand and by the natu ralness of its deduc tions. Mr. Denis is the official reporter of the decisions of the Su preme Court of the State, having been chosen by the Justices in 1880. Judge Frank Adair Monroe, Professor of Commercial Law and the Law of Corpora tions, was a year ago prevailed upon to be come one of the Fac ulty. Judge Monroe is a native of Mary HEXRY C land, and a descendant of the family of which President Monroe was a member. After distinguishing himself on the battle-field in the cause of Southern rights, the judge was admitted to the bar. In 1872 he was elected judge of the Third District Court, and held the position until 1880, when under the new constitution he was appointed one of the judges of the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans, which position he now occupies with credit to himself and honor to the State. As a judge he is careful, indus trious, patient, and clear-headed. His de cisions are marked by perspicuity of state-

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ment, erudition, and ability. Always a close and earnest student, the fruits of his appli cation are seen in the compact and learned opinions which he hands down from the bench. The same qualities which have made of him so able a judge will certainly endow him with the attributes necessary for a suc cessful professor. Hon. Harry H. Hall is also a recent ac quisition to the school. His merits, ability, and high personal qualities secured for him a fore most position at the bar. He studied law under Hon. Charles E. Fenner, now Asso ciate-Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and quickly adapted himself to the requirements of the profession. He is still quite young, and has a bright present and a brighter future before him. No law yer at the bar, of his age, experience, and practice, stands higher than he. The degree of Bach elor of Laws granted MILLER. by the University en titles the person on whom it is conferred to admission to the bar of this State. The graduates of the school constitute a large number of the most re spectable practitioners of law in Louisiana. Some of them occupy high judicial posi tions. The great fountain of the jurisprudence of Louisiana is the Roman Civil Law. While it is necessary to study here, as in other States of the Union, the Laws of Nature and Nations; Admiralty and Maritime Law, the Common Law, Equity and Constitutional Law, it becomes absolutely requisite to add to