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examinations at
Harvard, being still on the Examining Board (at nineteen), and occasionally dining with the committee.
In describing the committee examinations, the young visitor says:—
There are probably half a dozen in the present Senior class who know more by a good deal than I do now, or shall when I examine them.
So I must go to the examinations and be satisfied with looking learned, which after all is all the Committee ever did when I was in College.
The journal records:—
I am studying away at a great rate and enjoying it especially.
I do seek to gratify this craving for knowledge which will not let me rest.
No kind of studying is anything but a pleasure to me.
And in the student's enthusiasm, he exclaims:—
Oh the delicious pleasure of learning whatever there is to be learned.
He continues:—
I am delighted to find my memory is becoming more retentive than ever before.
The last year at Brookline gave me time to digest the immense weight of miscellaneous matter heaped on it from my earliest boyhood, and now I begin to study to very much more advantage and feel my powers of retention to be relied on.
But in spite of his enjoyment of this solitary life,
Wentworth occasionally mused:—
