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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
th the study. The elective system had not then been introduced, and there was no escape from the prescribed course. He is reported by one classmate to have said that he had not cut the leaves of some of the text-books in this department. Dec. 27, 1829, he wrote to Stearns, who was then teaching at Weymouth, Browne went home and escaped the mathematical examination. That I attended. All I can say about myself is, gratia Deo, I escaped with life. His difficulty extended, of course, more orure and history, and sometimes pressed his view aggressively. Three of his letters while in college are preserved. They were written in the winter of 1829-30, to his classmate, Stearns, then teaching a school at Weymouth. The letter of Dec. 27, 1829, speaks of his purpose, in company with his classmate. Frost, to make a pedestrian trip to Weymouth. Tower remembers him as wearing in college a cloak of blue camlet lined with red, and, in a letter written soon after they left college, rec