Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Dedication E, the Class of 1949, are proud and honored to dedicate this book to the memory of a great American, Charles Evans Hughes, 81.

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i P L THE THEME HAT Brown University has left its imprint on the thousands of men who have been here in college needs no repeating. But, perhaps we at times lose sight of the fact that these same thousands of men as well as those students now at Brown have exercised and exercise a profound influence on the University. This influence is manifested in many ways. On all levels of college life, we find student groups and organizations whose very existence must have some influence on the University. In this, your ycarbook, we shall try to show how the University is affected by the students. To this purpose the book has been divided into general groupings which we feel reflect more or less specific influences. In keeping with this idea, we, the editors of the 1949 Liber Brunensis, have chosen as the theme for this book the influence of the students of Brown on the University.

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Charles Evans Hughes as a distinguished alumnus. harles Evans Hughes was the Prophet of the Class of 1881. Although the text of his prophesy is missing, he undoubtedly spoke of the duty of the individual graduate towards the world and his ob- ligation to the College. His brilliant record and devotion to Brown serve, far better than would a mere printed text, to indicate what he meant to express in his original prophesy. Hughes as a student at Brown was described by President Faunce, a schoolmate, as, a long, lank, extremely slender chap, who, until he became ac- quainted, was shy and awkward. But he was never cold. He knew what good fellowship meant, and he practiced it as heartily as any man in College. He was not a student in the sense of one who burns the midnight oil. He did not need to burn the oil, for he had a quick, attentive, brilliant mind. He had a ready, fluent wit, and in fraternity meetings, where he participated in debate or gave an original paper for discussion, he was cloquent, keen, and always interesting. Although many students, by positive action or mere presence, influence the College only during their undergraduate days, and others continue to leave their mark through alumni support, there remains a chosen few who, through leadership, sci- entific discovery or religious inspiration, change the context of the nation and world in which the Col- lege lives. Such a man was Charles Evans Hughes. As Governor of the State of New York, Secretary of State, Chicf Justice of the United States and leader of many international commissions, he promulgated and adhered to those high ideals of justice, humanity and equality which are the mark of the man and the great statesman. Writing for the Alumni Monthly, President Henry M. Wriston said Whatever place is ac- corded him in history, the roots of his greatness were nurtured on this campus in colloge days. If to- day this University has a group of students with like self-discipline, and similar intellectual drive, with equal breadth of taste and interest, with com- parable zest for life, its fame will run the country over and its future will be insured. Charles Evans Hughes as an under- graduate.