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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
iew, the young student adds, If I only could be 3rd scholar. Two days later he speaks of lounging on the grass of the Delta with various friends, and exclaims, I've given up all hopes of keeping above Parker. A little earlier in that year, Professor Felton had required the youth to translate the soliloquy of Henry V into Greek iambic verse, which the victim pronounced A terrible visitation! Of the occasion on which this translation was presented to the public, Higginson wrote in later life:esday, July 17, 1839. It must have been a great day for me, for this is the first exhibition in which I took part. . . . I have somewhere, among my papers, my first efforts at that Greek poetic translation which was practically rewritten by Professor Felton and recited on the actual occasion with a dignity that I did not forget for a long time. My two nearest rivals in rank at that time spoke a Greek dialogue, a thing not done for many years, I believe, in the college. The same event is de