... mathematician of the class, though Professor Smyth, with better discrimination, taking in the entire course, gave the palm to my friend Jewett. Jewett and Fuller were for years in the same firm in Chicago . Mell fuller, as we called him, was a college friend, though not a classmate, of mine. He is now the Chief Justice of the United States. As I have said, in the winter vacation of 1846 I met ...