University, B: Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 21

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University, B: Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 21

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Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 21: November, 1920

Reggie early attained notoriety and the distinction of a nickname. He was in the old days a marked man upon the campus; and the absence of his figure from our future reunions we shall be little likely to forget. Su perficially he lives in memory for his struggles with wind and umbrella, for his strange voice and his deaf ness, his Socratic countenance and his general physical left-handedness. It would not be honesty were it not so set'down. Yet if we search our recollections of him more deeply, another image will appear, for which I will venture to seek words.

Among his friends and even among those who had with him only the cas ual contacts of class and college and business affairs he inspired both af fection and esteem. When we saw that half-derisive smile slowly broaden on his face and heard his voice rise in almost boisterous greet ing, we liked him. We liked him, I think, because sub-consciously we recognized a spirit that was simple and kindly and loyal and without pre tense; because he was not self-seek ing, and did not hide himself, as so many of us do, behind a wall of pride; because he liked his fellows and their ways, even the ways in which he could not walk. He also had our es teem because of his more obvious quality of power of mind. Indeed in that, and in the strength of character by which he won it, lies, I think, the important meaning of his life.

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