He was educated at Yale University, where, according to a contemporary, he was a "thoughtful scholar in the class-room, a prizeman in the essay competitions, an influential editor of the Yale Lit an impressive speaker in the Linonian Society, hail-fellow-well-met on the campus, sedate, impulsive, big-hearted, wise, witty, everywhere he was the ideal collegian."
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The college was noted for an attention to etiquette and English language instruction, for which it was often satirized in other university periodicals such as the Harvard Crimson, Yale Literary Magazine and the Daily Princetonian.