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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 2 2 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
re was another matter which made me careless of my standing in the regular course. It was that the rules of the college required students to attend prayers at daylight in the winter at the chapel, and go to church twice on Sundays. I regret to say I did not always do this, shirking the prayers more frequently, however, than the sermons, perhaps, for the reason that I was very much interested in the doctrinal character of the latter. A course of doctrinal sermons was preached by the Rev. Samuel F. Smith, an earnest speaker, who very clearly put the doctrines before us so that we could understand them. During his whole life he had been a teacher of the Calvinist Baptist faith, and obtained great and deserved celebrity as the author of what has become almost a national hymn, America, My country, 'tis of Thee. The penalty of neglecting each prayer or sermon was ten cents, which was quite a matter, considering how scarce the ten cents were in my pocket. But there was another penalty
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
tery clears mob at New Orleans, 376. Sixth Corps, reference to, 858. Sixty-Second North Carolina, a deserter from gives information, 795. Sixth U. S. colored troops raid into Virginia and North Carolina, 617-618. Sixty-Seventh Ohio attacked, 649. Slavery, its perpetuation the cause of the war, 128; how and why it lead to rebellion and Butler to the front, 128, 160. Slidell and Mason episode, McClellan's reference to, 577. Slocumb, Mrs., Cora, story of, 423, 425. Smith, Rev. S. F., expounds Calvinistic doctrine, 60. Smith, Win., Butler studies law with, 71-72. Smith, Wm. P., transportation at Baltimore and plea to Colonel Jones, 180. Smith, Captain, aid rendered by at Fort St. Philip, 368; carries Butler to New Orleans, 370; remark concerning Mumford, 371, allows gunboat McRae to become cartel, 390. Smith, Brigadier-General, C. S. A., letter from Davis, 458; report on Farragut's passing Vicksburg, 478. Smith, Maj.-Gen., Wm. F., ordered to report t
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 2: (search)
bs's Greek Reader, Mattaire's Homer, and other books preparatory to admission to Harvard College. The late Joseph Palmer, M. D., was an assistant instructor in the school, but was not then conscious that he was moulding the spirit of one whom he was afterwards to greet as the leading speaker on behalf of freedom in America. Among his school companions at this period were George T. Bigelow, Robert C. Winthrop, George S. Hillard, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas B. Fox, William H. Channing, Samuel F. Smith the poet, and others who have since attained celebrity. Although Charles Sumner did not hold the highest rank in scholarship on the appointed lessons of his class, he was distinguished for the accuracy of his translations from the Latin classics, and for the brilliancy of his own original compositions. He received in 1824 the third prize for a translation from Sallust; when one of the examiners remarked, If he does this when a boy, what may we not expect of him when a man? Two years
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
ng to the years of study. Each class was distributed into three divisions, generally with some reference to proficiency in the appointed studies. Charles and his brother and their kinsman, William H. Simmons, belonged to the third or lowest division. The class had forty-five members the first year; but three years later it had only twenty-nine. While he was in the school, there were in older classes Robert C. Winthrop, George S. Hillard, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, and Samuel F. Smith; and in the succeeding one, Wendell Phillips. The curriculum at the Latin School comprehended more than was then or is now required for admission to Harvard College. It included, in Latin, Adam's Latin Grammar, Liber Primus, Epitome Historiae Graecae (Siretz), Viri Romae, Phaedri Fabulae, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sallust's Catiline and Jugurthine War, Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, the Agricola and Germania of Tacitus, and the Odes and Epodes of Horace. In