New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

sophocles" He also divided with Judge Mum
ford. OF this city, the Carpenter prize given -.
excellence in scholarship, combined with apihty,
character and attachments. In his junior yea
he won the Dunn prize offered for excellence III
rhetorical studies Here is typical state,nelis @
made by a classmate concerning Mr. Hughes
life at Brown:
Charlie perhaps what you might ta, fat
precocious. though he breaks the usual ruIe tsa
precocity is superficial and indicates epnenei, ,a
powers He did not apply himself TO Doohs' .he ne
didn't have TO In order to distance an oIe Ieo so
heaviest grinds. Fifteen minutes over lesson sol
would prepare him for what was often plili-
liant recitation. / think the rapldity Win whIn
he thought was perhaps the most noticeape
part of his performance in the classroom. I've
seen him called upon wholly Unexpectedly ana
make a strikingly favorable impression upon
the professor where another man, who perhaps
had given the subject more careful consldera-
ton and actually knew more about IT, In sllnllaI
circumstances might have made a complete
failure The power the inwardness OF
complex situations at glance and TO put what
he saw I'm words was developed in him TO a
remarkable degree Mathematics was an easy
subject for him. and evidently by the way ne
has handled the books OF the gas and insur-
ance companies in New York. he is no less
skilled in the science now than he was while
IN college. Then IL impossible to make
problem SO involved that he could not go at
to the vital point in IL. Much OF his spare
time Charlie devoted to amusing himself. He
read great deal. he played a remarkable game
OF whist and was strong at chess He was not
by any means noted for his piety: there was
abundance of good red blood in his veins,
which doubtless did it's share to make his class
noted as one or the uNeneSt Oh It's Iltle Ol
the other hand. Charlie was square in all his
dealings and democratic and genial with his
fellows. His character had not the slightest
stain upon II. Yes, all knew that Charlie
was the ablest and biggest man IN college.
There were others that better scholars
and knew more. but he impressed the
man who had the greatest possibilities Two
things, we feared, might prevent him from
making the most of himself lack of indus
health. When he was at Brown he
tremely thin and frail looking. No man in col
lege In my day. in fact had changed since then
much as he. I remember he once told me in
New York that he was sorry to say that he
felt he had wasted much of his time at Brown
That his conscientious way Of looking at
his own shortcomings, and / said TO him. II
guess you couldn't have thrown away all your
opportunities. What do you think Of the rest
Of us? If you wasted your time and won hon
ors. what sort of thoughts should we have of
neglected opportunities?
Since leaving college, however, those quail
ties which he lacked there have been added to
his already rich store He has acquired great
physical vigor and tremendous energy. The re-
sources he now possesses are invincible. They
are the characteristics of greatness. With them
TO draw upon, he is certain TO grow to Presi-
Dental stature.
The son has profited by his fathers wisdom
Mr.. Hughess occasional boiling over" one
of his classmates expressed it, was largely due
to the repression forced upon him by the strict
way in which his clergyman father brought him
up. Some of the boys actions might have
shocked a strait-laced Baptist minister Of
those days, but they had nothing Inherently
wrong in them. Mr.. Hughes told a college chum
not long after mis- son was born that he meant
TO give him different training from that which
was common in his day, although he wanted II
understood that he did not critcise the methods
of his parents in this direction. That training
has taken the form Of accompanying his son 10
concerts and TO plays Of merit and making him
his companion In much of his amusements and
intellectual delights. The result of this care
Is evident in Young Hughes Quiet and re-
served but interested in all forms Of college lfe
he has won the respect of that portion of the
Undergraduates with whom he has come in con-
tact His unpretentious room and his cOnnec-
tion with the Delta Upsilon Fraternity have not
served to make the boy conspicuous as yet A
young man Of his characteristics does not come
10 his own in his freshman year, but II the
judgment Of those who have come in close con-
tact with him can be trusted Charles Z. Hughes
tr will be among the leaders of undergraduate
life before he is well into his senior year.