The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-15
DIES in ASYLUM
DR.. EDWARD w. EVANS A
VICTIM OF TYPHOID.
He Was One of Princeton's Most Bril-
liant Sons, and Became Insane
Through Overstudy.

TRENTON, Aug. 15.-Death's latest
victim from among the typhoid suf-
ferers at the State Hospital for the
Insane is DR.. Edward w. Evans, jr.,
A. M, Phi. D., of this city, who sue
cumbed to the ravages of the disease
yesterday afternoon. DR.. Evans was
one of the most distinguished scholars
ever graduated from Princeton Univer-
sity, n during his collegiate career
captured the greatest number of prizes
ever awarded to a Princeton student.
Studiousness proved to be the candies
cap in DR.. Evans's case-his reason
was snuffed out by his research for
further knowledge. His ambition in
this direction proved to be the blight
of a career that had given promise of
being most brilliant.
DR.. Evans, who was but 38 a
old, was the son of Lawyer Edward
w. Evans. Born in this city, he re-
ceived his early education in the State
Model School, where he prepared for
college. In 1887 DR.. Evans entered
Princeton University, and during his
freshman year displayed genius in a
literary direction, When he wrote an
admirable criticism of the life work
of Walter Savage Lander, considered
by many the English poet laureate.
The work at once attracted the atten-
ton of the university faculty, and a
brilliant literary career was predicted
for young Evans.
But a mark of the scholarly mental
ability of DR.. Evans had been displayed
prior to his entering college. He had
e studied Greek at the Model
school, and when he decided to enter
college he was handicapped by this
fact, at least so his parents and friends
thought. The young man was offered
the services of a tutor to instruct him
in Greek, but he declined the oppor-
tunity and determined to master the
language sufficiently to enter college
without assistance. How well he sue
ceeded is best told by his success, for
not only did he gain a high mark in
the study at the time he entered col
lege, but he also led his class during
the four years of his university course.
DR.. Evans's father was unable last
night to recall all of the prizes his
son won while at Princeton. However,
he did remember that he had captured
the DR.. McCosh prize for philosophy
in both his junior and senior years;
the English prize in composition, in
which contest the entire college was
entered; the archaeological fellowship,
which provided a two years post
graduate course in the study of arch
oelogy; the honor of class orator in
his junior year, and that of class poet
In his senior year. In all the records
of the institution at the time of DR..
Evans's graduation showed that he
had been awarded two more prizes
than any other student up to that
time. The cash prizes he won aggre-
gated more than $1,000.
The archaeological fellowship was
also awarded to him at graduation
when he was given the degree Of
bachelor of arts; but instead of spend
ing the extra two years at the univer-
sity which he was entitled. young
Evans after one year, decided to com
plete his studies in Europe, n ht
went abroad for a year.
Upon his return he was given th'
degree of master of arts by his alma
mater, and three years later the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy was con
ferred pom him. BY this time DIR
Evans had assimilated a great store
of knowledge. But he was yer 6
seeker, and continued to explore th'
regions of learning from h loft,
peaks Of art to the erudite depths O.
science until nature -rebelled. Slowly
but surely, the cord Of reason became
frayed. until it finally snapped, ans
Dr.. Evans, poet, l~iteratus and ar
critic, was shorn of his intellectual
faculties. He had gone mad,