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Among the professors of later times none Distinguished merit and brilliant service occupies a more exalted position in the eyes and success in any profession are greatly of the people and bar of New Orleans than commended to public admiration and ap Hon. Thomas J. Semmes. He first became plause by a knowledge of the obstacles over a professor in 1873. A graduate of George come by the achiever. Among our bar there town College, he read law in the office of is no brighter example of this victory of hu Clement Coxe, of that city, and entered the man energy than is presented in the case of Law School of Harvard University, where Henry C. Miller, the present dean of the Law Judge Story and Simon Greenleaf were pro School. He shared none of the advantages

fessors. His penetra of thorough college tive intellect possesses training of his emi a perspicuity as quick nent contemporaries, as it is vivid, and his yet his professional conclusions do not endowments and ac wait upon labored in quirements are of the highest order. As an duction. He seizes at advocate he is very once upon the core of effective and impres his subject, beginning sive, addressing courts where most reasoners end. In the settled and juries in a style of intricacies of the law earnest and lucid rhet oric not surpassed by he is adroit as a prac any other member of tised general in the the bar, and with a full field. When warmed and familiar knowl with his subject he edge of the issues of utters words of fire laws and fact, and a that carry the listener solidity of judgment captivealong with him. and lucidity of style Mr. Semmes is re which rarely fail to nowned for his ability secure him success. to sway courts by a Hon. Henry Denis, logic almost irresisti Professor of Civil ble and juries by a HARRY H. HALL. Law, has been for fascinating eloquence. many years one of the He is a man of posi tive character, of pure reputation, and of leading practitioners at the bar of his State. As a member of the law-firm of Johnson & untiring energies. Denis until the retirement of Mr. Johnson, The present Faculty consists of — and singly since then, he has had an exten Henry Carleton Miller, Professor of Admi sive and varied practice covering the entire ralty and International Law, and the Dean of the field of Civil and Commercial Law. His Faculty; Thomas Jenkins Semmes, Professor of Constitutional Law, Common Law, and Equity; lectures on Civil Law are remarkable for Henry Denis, Professor of Civil Law and Lecturer their clearness and for the logical exposition on the Land Laws of the United States; Francis and forcible illustration of the principles of Adair Monroe, Professor of Commercial Law and that great body of jurisprudence of which he the Law of Corporations; Henry Hinckley H all, has been a life-long student. The precision Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Evidence, and of his mind, added to his powers of sustained of Practice under the Code of Practice of Louisiana. study and to his thorough mastery of the