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Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ographical notes made in later life we take the following:— During my senior year in college, I had under my charge a young fellow of the well known Perkins family, who with his elder companions, after a party, had sung a song beneath the window of the President's wife. So he was put in my care, although we were of much the same age and I needed supervision as much as he. My room was his headquarters, although he went to his home in Jamaica Plain every night. Later, when I lived at Newport, he and his family came there to live and his children were very anxious to see me, because they had heard so much about their father's guardian. Continuing these notes about his college career, he says:— My greatest peculiarity was an inordinate passion for books—of any sort—great and small, heavy and light, useful or useless, nothing came amiss and I probably accomplished, in the first 13 years of my life, more miscellaneous reading than most youths of eighteen. In 1906, Co
Norton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
te fun. In his elation at having recited ninety-five lines of Latin without many corrections, he records that he kicked football by moonlight; and he sometimes speaks of two hours spent in the water, once climbing a ten-foot fence to reach the wharf. In spite of his strenuous evenings, he usually rose at five to study. Living at home the first year, he found various ways to make himself useful. He chopped wood diligently, sometimes by candlelight; recorded transplanting clematis from the Norton place, and once gathering six dozen waterlilies at Fresh Pond. One day he was engaged about 3/4 hour in driving a strange yellow cat out of the cellar, and in the afternoon making rat-traps. He took boxing-lessons, played chess and backgammon with his mother, recited poetry and read aloud. Another amusement was firing the cross-bow with his cousin Farley Storrow at bottles in the closet. Broke 5. He also speaks of shooting with same at a phrenological bust. Smashed! Later he wrote t
Jamaica Plain (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
t years of your setting out. From the autobiographical notes made in later life we take the following:— During my senior year in college, I had under my charge a young fellow of the well known Perkins family, who with his elder companions, after a party, had sung a song beneath the window of the President's wife. So he was put in my care, although we were of much the same age and I needed supervision as much as he. My room was his headquarters, although he went to his home in Jamaica Plain every night. Later, when I lived at Newport, he and his family came there to live and his children were very anxious to see me, because they had heard so much about their father's guardian. Continuing these notes about his college career, he says:— My greatest peculiarity was an inordinate passion for books—of any sort—great and small, heavy and light, useful or useless, nothing came amiss and I probably accomplished, in the first 13 years of my life, more miscellaneous readi
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
the Bird of Paradise be chosen Poet! From Philadelphia, he wrote to his mother:— I was at the hotel there with H. W. Longfellow, Esq. . . . He introduced me to the great Charles Sumner who was with him, for which I was duly grateful. At Baltimore, he saw for the first time a sign, Negroes bought and sold, and noticed the difference in appearance between the gloomy dulllook-ing Baltimore negroes and a lively colored waiter whom he had made friends with at the New York hotel, and added, SBaltimore negroes and a lively colored waiter whom he had made friends with at the New York hotel, and added, Slaves and a freeman is the difference, I suppose. While in Virginia, Wentworth received this letter from his mother, with its pathetic reference to her son Thacher's fatal voyage:— Now for news—Thacher sailed yesterday for Rio Janeiro. . . . He took out Books of all kinds, Scientific and literary. Theology, Law, History, Poetry, Philosophy, French, Spanish and English— he expects to be home in July. . . . I hope you will be able to come to some determination during this pilgrimage
Wheeler (search for this): chapter 3
for 3 years and of the national organization at the same time and helped build the latter up when it was so sought after that we had one application from a Southwestern college which said that they had heard of f. B. K. and as they already had nine Greek letter societies it would be nice to have ten! In the college journal, the event is thus recorded: August, 1840. f. B. K. day—the greatest of my life so far. Rushed round till 9 on committee business—having carried the ribbons to Wheeler's room and put on my medal. . . . I went in [to dinner] later than was necessary—Judge Story and the grandees sat at the raised West end. First course I had was roast beef carved by White Simmons. 2nd, plum pudding and apple pie, then wine, fruit and segars—Passed a charming afternoon, lots of wit— the Judge always ready and always witty, as President. In the spring of his Junior year, Wentworth wrote:— Such a smile as today's! The 2nd English Oration, a first Bowdoin prize
Hoffman (search for this): chapter 3
ch cheered me wonderfully and I feel quite nice now.] At the end of his sophomore year, he resolved to be fourth or fifth scholar, and a month later his diary contained this caution:— Look out, Higginson, or your resolution, top of page 13, will go to grass! The college term closed on July 19, and he wrote on that day:— My Sophomore year is now over, this day concluding the second term. My rank during this term has been pretty satisfactory (v. p. 8 [of journal]). I must beat Hoffman, however, if possible. When, early in the following October, he went to the President, the latter said to him, You stand very well. I couldn't wish you to stand much better. To the account of this interview, 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
Fanny Appleton (search for this): chapter 3
ears of college life Wentworth kept a minute account of all his doings in the form of a college journal. In these records are preserved, not only lists of books read, but of books I want to read, of pieces I can repeat; of bouquets (always composed of wild flowers he had gathered), with dates of presentation to his friends; of calls he had made, of drives and walks he had taken; and of the engagements and marriages of friends, as, Dr. Howe and Julia Ward of New York; Mr. Longfellow and Fanny Appleton. He was equally careful and minute about all his expenditures, the latter being a lifelong habit. At one time he seriously thought of making the law his profession, and with this end in view he made an inventory of all the lawyers in Boston, and of various law books. He was always a great pedestrian, 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 reading into the small hours. His
French (search for this): chapter 3
between the gloomy dulllook-ing Baltimore negroes and a lively colored waiter whom he had made friends with at the New York hotel, and added, Slaves and a freeman is the difference, I suppose. While in Virginia, Wentworth received this letter from his mother, with its pathetic reference to her son Thacher's fatal voyage:— Now for news—Thacher sailed yesterday for Rio Janeiro. . . . He took out Books of all kinds, Scientific and literary. Theology, Law, History, Poetry, Philosophy, French, Spanish and English— he expects to be home in July. . . . I hope you will be able to come to some determination during this pilgrimage—what you would like best to do after you leave College. . . . At any rate the next term had better decide the business as it is very important that from the time you graduate you should be able to support yourself independently and be able even to lay up something to carry you through your Profession or to help you along during the first years of your se
H. W. Longfellow (search for this): chapter 3
Through the four years of college life Wentworth kept a minute account of all his doings in the form of a college journal. In these records are preserved, not only lists of books read, but of books I want to read, of pieces I can repeat; of bouquets (always composed of wild flowers he had gathered), with dates of presentation to his friends; of calls he had made, of drives and walks he had taken; and of the engagements and marriages of friends, as, Dr. Howe and Julia Ward of New York; Mr. Longfellow and Fanny Appleton. He was equally careful and minute about all his expenditures, the latter being a lifelong habit. At one time he seriously thought of making the law his profession, and with this end in view he made an inventory of all the lawyers in Boston, and of various law books. He was always a great pedestrian, 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 reading into the
W. W. Story (search for this): chapter 3
up when it was so sought after that we had one application from a Southwestern college which said that they had heard of f. B. K. and as they already had nine Greek letter societies it would be nice to have ten! In the college journal, the event is thus recorded: August, 1840. f. B. K. day—the greatest of my life so far. Rushed round till 9 on committee business—having carried the ribbons to Wheeler's room and put on my medal. . . . I went in [to dinner] later than was necessary—Judge Story and the grandees sat at the raised West end. First course I had was roast beef carved by White Simmons. 2nd, plum pudding and apple pie, then wine, fruit and segars—Passed a charming afternoon, lots of wit— the Judge always ready and always witty, as President. In the spring of his Junior year, Wentworth wrote:— Such a smile as today's! The 2nd English Oration, a first Bowdoin prize and good pieces accepted in the magazine—and I am for the present perfectly happy. Du
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