The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-30

doesn't remember anything about the in
cident and that IL doesn't oun very prob
able. He was no prodigy when a boy. and
il he made any suggestions for saving time
back in those days he probably had about
the same reasons for doing 1t that the aver
age ~schoolboy would have.
At any rate he was taken out OF school
and remained under the tutelage Of his
father and mother until he was 10 years
old. The family had in the meantime moved
to Newark. N. j., and there he entered a
public school, being graduated in 1873.
HIS IN NEW YoRK.
A year later his father was called to a
church in this city and the boy entered
the old high school No. So, in West Thir-
teenth street. This was one OF the city's
most notable high schools back in those
days.
Young Hughes began 20 blossom Oh. 81
an ~essayist. Like most high school boys
he chose the most ponderous and awe in
spring subjects that could be found. The
Limitation OF the Human Mind" and The
Evils OF Light Literature, are Two ex-
ampIes. In the high school with Hughes
was r. Floyd Clarke, now a well known
lawyer. Clarke was the star orator OF the
school, and every time Hughes would come
70 the front with one OF his essays Clarke
was certain to break out with a defamation.
Mr.. Hughes made his first appearance
before a New York audience when he was
thirteen years old. That was at the com
mencement exercises Of old Sc, which
were held in the Academy Of Music end
were attended by several thousand persons.
Hughes rad an essay on Self Help"
Hughes had planned to enter tho College
Of the City OF New York, for which most
OF the boys in the high school had pre-
pared, but he was 20 young that they would
not accept him. He would have to wait a
year until he was fourteen. That year he
spent under the tutelage OF his father and
decided before It was over hat he would
enter Madison College, now Colgate Univer-
sity, rather than the New York institution.
COLLEGE AT "a.
At that time Madison had a five year
course, but Hughes conceived the notion
that he Wou Id ike to get through at the
same time az his DID high school chums
who had entered the College Of the City Of
New York. So he ret to work at home, and
in one year read Virgil, Homer, the Anaba-
sis and studied up in Latin and Greek COM
position. Before he began to study he had
had only one term OF Greek and Latin, but
he managed to knock a year OF his course
at Madison. Hughes entered Madison Col
Iege when he was fourteen years old. He
was at that time q frail, Sickly looking boy.
with absolutely no indication that he would
ever attain the physical development which
be nov enjoys.
Hughes took his freshman and sophie
more years at Madison. While there he
worked hard and had a good standing. Al
the end Of his sophomore year, though, he
decided that he would prefer TO enter a
larger institution. He selected Brown.
He.entered the sophomore year at Brown
with the class OF 1881. He could have en-
tered the junior year, but he was looking
for college spirit on the advice OF his
friends.
As a result he had scarcely any WORK TO
do In his first year at Providence. but he
didn't waste his time. He read voracioualy
chieGy action and history. His fathers
library bad not been rich In fiction and