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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 1 1 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 1 1 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
lation existed in those simple days between President and student:— President Quincy was present at our Livy recitation. Lucky. I never recited better.—President Q. was present at our recitation in Herodotus. Got along decently.—Went to President to get my marks. He wants me to behave well, so he says at least.—Deaded in Geometry for the first time. —Cut both recitations for amusement. Spent some time in the library [a favorite place of refuge]. On his fourteenth birthday, December 22, 1837, he found that he was the youngest undergraduate. Two months later his journal records some of the lively scenes then witnessed at prayer-time:— Many of the class having become slightly boozy, made somewhat of a noise in prayers. And again:— What a sight the Chapel presented at prayers this morning! About 200 panes of glass blown up, the hands of the clock taken off, and the dial stove in. The front panels of the lower part of the pulpit removed, and all the damask