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who were privileged to enter the closer circle of personal friend- 

 ship knew that however ample those possessions, however varied 

 and admirable those achievements, they were much less than 

 the man himself. They were the natural, almost the necessary, 

 fruit of a clear intellect, a strong will, and, above all, a moral 

 force that instinctively arrayed itself with generous sympathy on 

 the side of the true, the beautiful, and the good. 



The good causes of which Mr Hubbard was ever the discrim- 

 inating and liberal, though modest, patron ; the good work in 

 which he was, to the very close of his life, an active participant, 

 were not external to him ; they were, one and all, part of his own 

 nature. He was too self-respecting a man to court notoriety, 

 either as a philanthropist or as a patron of education or science, 

 by ostentatious benevolence. 



Now that Mr Hubbard has gone from us forever, we begin to 

 realize how large, how unique, and how beautiful a part he bore 

 in the social, charitable, and intellectual life of his adopted city. 

 Washington is doubtless destined to become more and more the 

 residence of men who have won fame or fortune in other parts of 

 the country, and come here to make their homes amid congenial 

 surroundings, homes of hospitality, and not seldom homes of re- 

 finement and culture. Mr Hubbard did this and he did more 

 than this. No home in Washington has dispensed a more charm- 

 ing and constant hospitality than his. He came to Washington 

 with an acknowledged social position, with well known and 

 honorable lineage, with liberal education and refined tastes, with 

 large and successful experience in the business world, with a 

 mind stored and broadened and liberalized by much reading and 

 much contact with men and things in his own and other coun- 

 tries. For such a man it was inevitable that he should become 

 associated with every form of charitable, educational, and scien- 

 tific work in this country that appealed to a man of public and 

 patriotic spirit, and if he became connected with them, it was as 

 inevitable that he should become a leader in them. 



His election, as Professor Bell has told us, to the presidency 

 of the Joint Commission of the seven scientific societies of Wash- 

 ington is but one illustration of this. The Congress of the 

 United States chose him a Regent of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. His associates on the board made him a member of its 

 executive committee, charged with a personal supervision of this 

 institution and of the scientific department which Congress had 

 placed under its administration. 



