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Hon. William C. Robinson, LL.D., Professor of Elementary and Criminal Law and the Law of Real Property, is the senior member of the Faculty. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854, and is a man of broad education and large experience. For several years he has withdrawn from active practice, and devoted his time to private research and the duties of his professorship. He is the author of Robinson's Elementary Law,—as orderly, concise, and accurate a guide to the study of the Common Law as can be desired,—and has for several years been engaged in preparing an exhaustive work on Patent Law which has just been completed for publication. A remarkably intimate knowledge of the Common Law and its history, a quick perception of the real difficulties of the student, and a clear, logical method of exposition make his instruction unusually successful. In such a difficult subject as the Law of Real Property its value is especially felt. Professor Robinson devotes his time more exclusively to the work of instruction than any other member of the Faculty.

Simeon E. Baldwin, M.A., Professor of Constitutional and Mercantile Law, Corporations, and Wills, graduated from Yale College in 1861, and studied his profession partly at the Yale and partly at the Harvard Law School. He is descended from Roger Sherman, and comes of a family of lawyers who have for a century been distinguished for their scholarship and professional ability. As a constitutional and corporation lawyer he has a wide reputation and a large and lucrative practice, having been engaged in many important cases in the highest courts of the State and United States. He has also a large estate practice. He is President of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, has published a complete digest of the State Reports, was one of the commission chosen by the State Legislature for the revision of the Statutes concerning Education in 1872, of that to revise the General Statutes in 1873, of that to prepare a Practice Act to introduce Code Pleading in 1878, and of that to revise the State system of Taxation in 1885. He has been for several years chairman of the committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform of the American Bar Association, and has prepared a number of reports and papers which appear in its publications. His activity is not limited to matters of a professional character, but extends to those of general and local interest. In whatever he undertakes his work is characterized by method, industry, and accuracy, and never fails of a definite result. At the bar his large experience, skill in practice, and familiarity with the technique of the law make him an especially formidable antagonist in any case. The same general features characterize his work as an instructor, to which he brings an intimate knowledge of constitutional history and gives the results of careful personal investigation. Every moment of his hour is fully utilized, every question and statement important. The exercise is made a guide for future private study, the value of which the students are not slow in realizing and in proving by faithful work.

Johnson T. Platt, M.A., Professor of General Jurisprudence, Torts, and Equity, is a scholar in the philosophy of the law, thoroughly equipped with material for his work. He was graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, was Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven in 1874, and for many years has been one of the two standing Masters in Chancery appointed by the United States Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut. Though in active practice and frequently engaged in important cases, he is a diligent and enthusiastic student. Two years ago he was the leading counsel for the defence in the celebrated "Boycott" case, which was so energetically fought in the Connecticut Supreme Court, and in which the law of criminal conspiracies, at that time a matter of critical importance, was exhaustively discussed. Professor Platt is one of