The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-10

side reading in the classics covered 40
much ground as IL prescribed nova
days for the university degree OF doc
tor OF philosophy. Then, when he had
finished at Williamsburg, no returned
to Shadwell with the determination 70,
BE- student all the remainder OF his
life.
Apparently jefferson never yravercd
iii this resolution. Throughout all his
public service, whether at home or
abroad he adhered to his early inten-
ton OF devoting a considerable por-
ton OF his time to study after "a more
or less systematic plan. During his
residence in Europe he made III. ac-
quaintance OF many notable scholars of
the time. and was regarded by them az
an equal. AS a literary man, the au-
thor OF the Declaration of Indapen-
oencc had no peer among the build
ers of the republic; he stood alone in
his ability to ciothe his ideas in the
most fitting expression. His love for
books was greater than his regard for
the emolumcnts of Office, and IT was
the sorrow of his old age that he was
compelled by adverse circumstances to
sell the library ne had accumulated Mt
Monticello, the ln,st and best selccted
collection of books and manuscripts
! owned by an American citizen.
Nine years after Jefferson left VIII
liam and Mary. James Madison was
graduated from Princeton. He vas
twenty years of age. small framed
! thoughtful-face and had the clear,
forecasting vision of a statesman"
| Even at that early age he was a silent
worshipcr at the shrine of jefferson
and was even more of n bookworm
than was that great Firginian. After
graduation. he remained a few months
, to study privately with DR.. Wither-
spoon. the President and when he left
Princeton he carried TO his Virginia
| home the groundwork of that wise
and thorough scholarship which was
to prove of such immense service to
him in the great role he was to play
| in the founding of the nation
| For some time this fragile, serious
| faced student was interested In the
ology, and he had about made IN his
! mind to devote himself to the church
when the signs of the times began
to point so Enthusiastically to the War
| of the Revolution that his luminous
! young mind and patriotic heart ware
reused to action. More than all. per-
| haps. his admiration and friendship for
. Jefferson prompted him to close his
books and TO take the position In pub
| lie affairs to which his wealth and sta.
ton entitled him, But James Madison
was ever a student, For him TIL; big.
| iltW W HibC IlOuoS, Will ali It's DretSn-
| tious nakedness and lack of associa-
| ton, was but an uneven exchange for
his well-st ocked and comfortable IL
brary at Montpelier.
Two Honor Men Mt Harvard
Both the Adamscs wero Harvard men,
and both won honors. The elder was
given the opportunity to secure q class.
! ical education through the personal
sacrifices OF his parents, who were de-
| termined to make n Congregational
minister of their son despite his pro-
test that he had no taste for the lifo
! Ills refusal to take UP the work was
bitter disappointment TO his pious ia
Their and mother. but 1t was some con-
! ISOLATION to know that he was 'of good
| habits and q clever student" lie was
always a man Of scholarly habit and
kept up his philosophical and lheologi-
cal studies TO the last. In his old age
he WAS as keen for n theological dis
| putation as was ever that polemIcal
! Scotchman, James !.
The younger Adams's prepare ton for
his Harvard career was unusually COM
| prehensive. His long residence in Eu-
| ropean cities as the companion of his
father while the latter was on his va
rious foreign missions had made him
master of several languages, and he ha6
also been a pupil at number OF ia
nous European secondary schools. He
| had even had tast, OF diplomacy
| and had relished it exceedingly &c
) other American boy. of seventeen. had