At Yale his wonderful mental gifts raised him far above his fellows; he divided all scholastic honors there with his classmate, William Graham Sumner, afterwards Yale's great political economist.

在耶鲁，他出色的智力天赋使他远超同龄人。 他在那里与他的同学威廉·格雷厄姆·萨姆纳 (William Graham Sumner) 分享了所有的学术荣誉， 萨姆纳后来成为耶鲁大学的伟大政治经济学家。