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found learning and vast ability. In the civil law, through the laborious efforts of Chris tian Roselius and other professors of civil law, its advantages were recognized and transmitted with signal ability. The result ing benefits in the administration of jus tice are too numerous to need specification. Suffice it to say, that the movement every where observable in favor of codification and

the use of symmetry and scientific accu racy of the civil law, simplicity in the ex ecution of testaments, the spread from this State over other American States of the doctrine of part nership in commendam, and the rising liberality in the gen eral law of partner ship, are all traceable to the study of the civil law and the branches of learning with which it is allied. The standard of pro fessional acquirements for admission to the bar has been steadily and constantly elevated by the College of Law. CHRISTIAN The degree of Bach elor of Laws has come to be considered an honor worthy of the best efforts of the student, and he goes forth from the University well prepared to defend and protect the lives, property, and rights of his fellow-citizens, and to main tain and support the constitutional rights and privileges of his State within the just limitation of the supreme law of the land. The school has stimulated an honorable ambition in the youth of the State, and in spired them with fresh devotion to the proper study of the law. The written ex aminations which are in force in the Col-

lege at the present time, after the improved method of modern professional education, are searching, accurate, and extended, and will, it is believed, challenge comparison with similar tests in the most celebrated institu tions elsewhere. From the date of its foundation the Law Department has dispensed unfailing bene fits by educating gratuitously all merito rious students in in digent circumstances, who have ever applied for the benefits of in struction. Unen dowed and struggling against many adverse circumstances, the labor of the College went on, until it made itself felt in every di rection in the current history of Louisiana and for its good. The affection of Paul Tulane, the great philanthropist, for the city of New Orleans was always strong and unwavering, and took definite shape in an act of donation for the city of New Orleans, on May 2, ROSELIUS. 1882, by which he con veyed his real estate in New Orleans to a board of seventeen ad ministrators for the higher education of the white youth of Louisiana. This and subse quent donations aggregated about $1,100,000, and he avowed his purpose of dedicating a large part of the residue of his estate, amount ing to about $[,000,000 more, to the same purpose; but as he died intestate, it fell to legal heirs. The fund thus created was used in found ing the Tulane University of Louisiana, which absorbed the Law Department. The present prosperity of the school is due to the intelli