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He wants me to behave well, so he says at least.—Deaded in Geometry for the first time. —Cut both recitations for amusement.
Spent some time in the library [a favorite place of refuge].
On his fourteenth birthday, December 22, 1837, he found that he was the youngest undergraduate.
Two months later his journal records some of the lively scenes then witnessed at prayer-time:—
Many of the class having become slightly boozy, made somewhat of a noise in prayers.
And again:—
What a sight the Chapel presented at prayers this morning!
About 200 panes of glass blown up, the hands of the clock taken off, and the dial stove in. The front panels of the lower part of the pulpit removed, and all the damask between the pillars torn away, and “A Bone for old Quin to pick” written on the wall.
On another page he exclaims:—
I have most indecorously omitted to mention one event . . . my receiving a Detur, Coleridge in 3 volumes, 12mo, college seal and all. 24 were given.
Mine is pretty fair.
These volumes in the original handsome bindings are still on the shelves of the Higginson library.
In after years he often alluded with amusement to his youthful susceptibility, and wrote:—
