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Rh associated. The strength and ruggedness and dignity of his character were stamped in his face, and these things but lent a peculiar charm to his gentleness and kindly manner. He was a gentleman of the old school.

"Of his personal relations to the members of the court in the intimacy of conference, I can not, of course, speak from personal experience. They are shown in the touching words in which, immediately after his death, the senior Associate Justice of this court, so long a loved and loving comrade in service with Chief Justice White, expressed the affectionate esteem in which the colleagues of this great Chief Justice held him. In closing this response for the court to these resolutions, I can best express their estimate of his judicial work by quoting Mr. Justice McKenna when he said:

'Anticipating the future, I see no shadow on his fame or service. I venture to make comparisons. I make full concession of the recognized and distinguished merit of those who preceded him. I make full admission in assured prophecy of the ability of those who will succeed him. Yet, considering his qualities, their variety and degree, and estimating them, I dare to say that he will forever keep a distinct eminence among the Chief Justices of the United States.'

"The resolutions and the accompanying remarks will be entered upon the records of the court."