GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 51 



betterment of part of the University's property. The enterprise 

 itself he heartily commended, but at the same time he insisted 

 that it should not be undertaken until it was known where the 

 means would come from to carr}^ the enterprise to completion. 

 This incident illustrates, perhaps, as clearly as a trait can be 

 illustrated the general attitude of Dr Hubbard's mind toward 

 work to be undertaken; in it thoroughness and prudence both 

 speak. Happily, however, the habits of thoroughness and pru- 

 dence did not make him unduly conservative ; rather he was 

 one of the most progressive of men. His mind was so well bal- 

 anced that so far from suggesting obstruction, prudence with 

 him was simply the basis of wise undertaking. He never cut 

 loose from the base of supplies, but the base of supplies was for 

 him also the base of vigorous operations leading to ever larger 

 movement and ever larger conquest. Dr Hubbard had in marked 

 degree the great gift of far-sightedness; his vision was large; 

 his plans for an institution could no more be confined to the 

 limits of a single city than his own life and influence could be. 

 There were always fields beyond to be taken into account, and 

 there was in his heart largeness of hope answering to the large- 

 ness of his vision ; he was no pessimist. It was a sad, dark day 

 for university work in Washington and everywhere when his 

 large vision of things was clouded by death. 



On the other hand, we have his life as manifested in the great 

 virtues of integrity, trustfulness, sympathy. Integrity he pos- 

 sessed in large degree ; it is simply the truth to say that his life 

 was a life of integrity. Falsehood, deceit, double speaking, un- 

 faithfulness of every kind was hateful to him. Clouding of issues 

 he could not tolerate. A line of thought he developed with great 

 clearness and power when engaged three years ago in committee 

 work with reference to filling the office of president, then vacant, 

 was simply the speaking out of his own sense of the importance 

 of a clear conception of the purpose of the institution. Conver- 

 sation had turned upon certain obligations of the University 

 toward those who had founded it in prayer and sacrifice. Dr 

 Hubbard insisted that these prayers and offerings should be held 

 in remembrance, and that while the institution ought not to be 

 regarded as an agency for the glorification of any body of Chris- 

 tians of any name, it ought beyond all question and beyond all 

 doubt to be an agency for the furtherance of Christian education. 

 When at the close of the last academic year, after long and pains- 

 taking canvass of the whole question, it was thought well to revise 



