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 The Law School of the Tulane University.

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chair in the Medical Department with pro found knowledge and much eloquence, and was in a great measure the father of the institution.1 Mr. Carleton Hunt has repre sented the First Congressional District of Louisiana in the National Legislature, and is at present the City Attorney of New Or leans. Never were great learning and fa miliarity with the classics wielded with greater power than by this eminent pro fessor of Civil Law. He combines a knowl edge of human nature with philosophy and logical acumen, and makes them subservient to the inculcation of solid truths of reason, law, and equity. Mr. Hunt has labored con stantly and arduously in the interest of the Law School, and his work is now bearing good fruit.

HENRY DENIS. During his long career at the Law School as professor of Constitutional Law, Commer cial Law, and the Law of Evidence, his lec tures were most successful. He possessed a great depth of voice, spoke fluently, and displayed a confidence both of assertion and tone which seldom failed to take his hearers' judgment captive. Henry Adams Bullard, Richard Henry Wilde, Thomas Benton Monroe, Sydney L. Johnson, Theodore Howard McCaleb, Thomas Allen Clarke, Daniel and Alfred Phillips were all prominent lawyers, and as professors made great reputations. Hon. Carleton Hunt is now to be named. He was for a number of years Dean of the Law School, and is an acknowledged leader of the New Orleans Bar, unsurpassed in learn ing, in vigorous argumentation, and in fear less maintenance of justice and equity. He is the son of Dr. Thomas Hunt, a most dis tinguished physician, who was in the early days the President of the University of Louisiana. Dr. Hunt filled an important 16

FRANK A. MONROE. 1 It was mainly by the exertions of Dr. Hunt, by his devotion to science and learning, and through the influence of his character, as a scholar and an ora tor, that the University of Louisiana was preserved through long and trying vicissitudes, to meet the recent benefactions of Paul Tulane.