Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-01


, allowing how he conll save time amt
make more progress by studying ut
! cnts.
home under the tntelage of his par.
mir. Hughes doesn't remember this
incident today, and insists hat ii he
wanted to leave school in those days
IL wis for the same reasons that the
average schoolboy would have.
AT any rate he studied at home un-
Ill he was 10. when he returned To
the public schools. In the high school
lie was the star essnylSt. and he al
ways chose the most ponderons and
awe inspiring subjects, such rs The
Limitation OF the Human Mind and
The Evil of Light Litcratnre.'
Hughes entered Madison College.
now Colgate University. ut II. and
remained two years Then hr decid
cd that life was Il little slow there
and determined TO go to Brown He
entered the sophomore year at Brown
in the class of 81, He could have en-
tered the junior class lat he was
looking for college spirit on the adj
vice of his friends.
'Iie was tall and very light at that
time. | don't think he could have
weighed over lbs pounds. II didn't
seem To me that he could have stood
much physical strain. but never
knew him to be sick lie always
showed up for recitation.
There Is no denying that Hughes
was homely, perhaps more so than the
average boy of his age. But we new
er noticed that when we came to
know him.
All these stories about his appear
ing ut Brown with hayseed In his hair
and wearing cowhide boots. with his
trousers tucked inside. are untrue
hughes was quietly but well dressed
always
lie wasn't long at Brown before
the faculty ana his classmates rcaliz-
ed that ho was fellow of more than
ordinary intellectual equipment He
wasn't by any means dig In fact,
lie didn't have TO be. because he could
learn so easily He spent all the time
that was necessary to enable him to
do his work well, and don't think he
ever came into his classroom without
being fully prepared to do whatever
was required of him.
When he entered Brown ne had
not taken the examination for rank,
One day Prof. Lincoln said to him:
Look here. Hughes, you are max
Ing mistake. If you pass these ex-
aminations for rank you will get your
key.
~ don't feel like taking the exam-
inations.' replied the boy.
"ITe told me later that he didn't see
why he should be required to take
these extra examinations simply be.
cause he had entered from an outside
institution. But the professor argued,
and finally Hughes took the examina
tons, passed high and got his Phi Beta
Kappa key at the end OF his junior
year.
Hughes wasn't an athlete. / don't
think he could have caught n passed
ball. even. with any degree of skill.
But he liked 10 see the other fellows
engage in athletic contcsts, aud en-
couragcd them all he could When
ever there was anything going on OH
me campus you could count on
Hughes being present.
He liked variety. like the rest of
us. and | think he must have boarded
at eight or ten different places during
his three years In college. A num-
ser of ns followed him from place to
place aud sat nj the same table with
him most of the time. When we'd get
tired OF one place we'd go to another.
Hughes was as good a companion
as anybody in the party. ana better
Than Lood many. for he was always
wide awake and what he said was to
The point. He could be witty or serI
Gus as the occasion required