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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 16 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
his fellow-students. His only intimate friend in the freshman class was Francis E. Parker, who always held the place of first scholar, and who later became a promioys were rivals in rank and two years apart in age. Under date of May 22, 1839, Parker wrote of his young classmate, then a sophomore: I like Wentworth rather, quite edestrian, often walking nine or ten miles a day, and taking evening walks with Parker far into the gloomy and desolate country, after which he sometimes sat up readit reading sentiments in the parlour, &c. This letter to his boon companion, Parker, has no date, but was undoubtedly written somewhat early in his college career:ta 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 trarrival announced in a newspaper; and while at the Astor House, he wrote thus to Parker at Cambridge: As I must . . . miss the class election, I write to give yo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
IV: the young pedagogue Shortly before graduation, Wentworth Higginson began looking about for employment, and in June, 1841, was engaged by Mr. Samuel Weld, of Jamaica Plain, as assistant in his school for boys, at six hundred dollars per year. In August he wrote Parker, I succeeded in getting a good room [at Jamaica Plain] for $25 the year and board from $3 to $4 [per month]. Settled in this new room, he began at once another journal. He was at first in a quandary as to whom it should be dedicated to, but finally decided on three girl friends and added, Now to business. Homesickness assailed him at first, but after a few days he got rather more comfortable, reading The Flirt and those beautiful poetical passages in the Devil's Progress. Apparently the young pedagogue, as he calls himself, had no trouble in teaching the boys or making friends with them. He took them with him on his long rambles in search of flowers, and describes a tramp around Jamaica Pond in cloth boo
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
s in, 95, 107; pro-slavery sentiment in, 103; resolutions concerning departure of Higginson from, 117. Newman, F. W., 334. North, Christopher, described, 339. Norton, Charles Eliot, and Higginson family, 6. Ogden, Robert, his educational trip, 364-66. Old Cambridge, 19, 386, 423. Oldport Days, 262, 412. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, Higginson writes about, 279; memorial meeting for, 397. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 279, 307, 308, 416. Outdoor Papers, 217, 313, 409. Parker, Francis E., 33, 58; describes Higginson, 23; Higginson's letters to, 32, 37, 41. Parker, Theodore, 148; encourages Higginson, 83; influence of, 90, 115; and John Brown's plans, 191. Part of a Man's Life, 426; work on, 392. Pattison, Dr., Mark, 340; and Higginson, 337, 338. Peabody, Josephine Preston, Higginson writes poem to, 388, 389. Pedro, Dom, of Brazil, account of, 261, 262. Perkins, Stephen H., Higginson becomes tutor in family of, 45-54. Petrarch, Fifteen Sonnets of