The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19

were of that genuine and unaffected | kind that comes from within. They were not put on They belonged to his disposition, and were its necessary ex- l pression.
 Schiller has compressed into five words a world of philosophy. Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis."
 Judge Townsend had the love of men because he gave them his.
 l I first knew him as a student at Yale college. He was not forgetful of what was to be gained there in learning and culture, but I think his heart went out most of all to his classmates and the | social life that opens out so delight fully around the Yale undergraduate who enters it with q sympathetic spirit. He was a universal favorite. Billy Townsend was welcome every where.
 He entered the Yale law school few years after I had commenced to give some instructions here. His college l days had been pleasant ones. They had also done him good service in pre- pairing him for the work of the world. The culture that an academic under graduate may be expected to acquire is not simply matter of learning. Life on college campus is life in a little social world. There Is set up there school of character, The youth is in- troduced to manhood. He is introduced to men. There is something of the re- fining and restraining influence of the family. It Is a larger circle, but there are the young, guarded and disciplined by their elders, and nsensibly led to walk in the same ways, to think their thoughts, to look up 10 them as mas ters in conduct as well as in science
 All this belongs to the secondary stage of liberal education. He who en- ters a professional school steps upon the third and final stage of liberal edu- 1 cation: final, so far as the actual work of scholastic instruction can give it. From this stage he must pass directly into the business, working world Many q man wakes to a new life, develops new energy. when the paternallsm of a college course is replacel by the com- paratlve independence of professional student.
 It was So with Judge Townsend. He gave to his professional education closer attenfion than he had bestowed on that offered him at college. lie worked hard and successfully. A study from his pen on the subject of the 'Ro- man advocate as compared with the English barrister, secured the prize then annually offered for the best essay on the civil law, and in the same year the Jewell prize for the best disser;a- ton by one of the senior class was also won by him.
 The graduate course at this school was established in 1875. He was one of the first 10 enter 1t and received the degree of doctor of civil law in course, in 1SS0
 While pursuing his graduate studies, he entered my office, and was then first introduced to the actual, everyday, practice of the bar.
 l found him always careful, atten- tive, industrious, anxious to do his best and to make the most of every oppor- tunity. He had. to start with, strong common sense; good powers of discrim- nation and analysis; the faculty of clear statement and persuasive argu- ment, His professional training had been unusually thorough, and he was now in a position to make it tell in the conduct of legal business.
 He soon secured a clentage of his own, but for number of years we had our offices together and were bound to each other with increasing intimacy. We had a new tie between us in 1881, when he became professor of pleading in the law school. From the first he was Q successful teacher. He loved the work. His native qualities adapted him to it, and his long course of legal education had given him broad foun- dation on which to build. He was a popular teacher in the best sense, The governing board would have been glad to have him devote himself entirely to the school and make teaching his life work, but he preferred to retain also his active connection with the bar
 In 1887. when the Edward J. Phelps professorship of contracts and commer- ed to that position, and continued to give instruction on those subjects and in admiralty for nWmber of years aft CT he left the bar
 As judge, the qualities which had given him high rank as practitioner, and a law teacher did him equal ser- vice.
 He always gave his heart to his work Ills nature was enthusiastic. What he did he did with his whole powers of mind and body.
 No pains were spared to prepare him. self for his work here as a teacher of law or to fulfill in a larger sphere his work as a minister of justice
 That of district judge of the United States in this district is mainly done in the circuit court and much of 1t in New York. The work of the circuit judges in this circuit Is mainly done in the circuit court of appeals, held in that city. Judge Townsend's court work was largely and increasingly there. After his appointment of circuit judge Mt became mainly of the Kind belonging to an appellate court. In no circuit of | the country is the business of this na- ture of equal magnitude or great com plexity. It soon absorbed all his ener- gies, and he reluctantly gave up to oth- CTS the work of instruction here in the subjects which he had taught so long. His last serious contribution to the services of the school (except as a member of the governing board in the general direction of it's affairs) were made in the preparation of the volume