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the charter of the institution, Dr Hubbard worked indefatigably 

 toward clearing up all doubtful questions, and heartily coincided 

 with the Committee of Revision, on which he was serving, in their 

 recommendation to the corporation that such changes should be 

 made in the governing boards of the University as should clearly 

 define all general issues and secure the most efficient oversight 

 possible. It was not first a question of policy with him, but a 

 question of right. Is.it right that this should be done? And 

 when he himself answered yes, he could add, and he did add, 

 '■ If it is right, then it is wise. 1 ' And when during the past year 

 the University had to face the painful task of dealing with dis- 

 honesty in a trusted official, it was the sense of violated obliga- 

 tion that filled the soul of Mr Hubbard most with righteous 

 indignation. His horror and contempt for theft and falsehood 

 were the natural language of a soul which kept itself unsullied 

 by insisting that the supreme rule of life is the rule of right. 

 Naturall} 7 enough Dr Hubbard's integrity made him trustful of 

 others ; the presumption of honest}^ in the other man was always 

 emphasized by him. Clear proof had to be given that his con- 

 fidence was misplaced before that confidence was withdrawn. 

 His own word meant his honor pledged, and he assumed that 

 the word of the other man meant the other man's honor, too. 



Withal, Dr Hubbard exhibited in marked degree the beauti- 

 ful trait of sympathy. Many were not aware of this. They saw 

 the man who had achieved success in his business and profes- 

 sional career and who gathered up unto himself lines of influence 

 that made him a man of mark in the community; but those 

 who were permitted to know him as a man were impressed by 

 his kindliness of spirit, his willingness to sacrifice self for others, 

 and his wonderful ability to enter into the joys and sorrows and 

 ambitions of others. His life was a life of infinite detail along 

 the most varied lines of interest; but all these details and inter- 

 ests did not make him forgetful of those who needed encourage- 

 ment and help. It was a revelation to the man in question, but 

 it was in every way characteristic of Dr Hubbard's kindly 

 thought, that from his sick chamber he sent for a representative 

 of the University, who did not dream that certain of his activ- 

 ities had been noticed, only to say to him these words, '• You are 

 working too hard." A thousand illustrations of this trait could 

 be enumerated, but the one experience tells the whole story as 

 clearly as a thousand could ; and when one had once learned 

 that the brusqueness which sometimes marked his speech had 



