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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5: year after College.—September, 1830, to September, 1831.—Age, 19-20. (search)
g a defect in his education. His classmates were much impressed with the resolution which he showed in his private studies, and particularly with his grappling with the branch which had annoyed him so much in college. Frost wrote, Sept. 25, Before closing, I cannot omit expressing my strong approbation of the rigid discipline to which you have subjected yourself. Such voluntary sacrifices in a man of your age and circumstances augur well of his coming years. Persevere! Browne wrote, Sept. 28, You have begun well. Quarter-past five in the morning is auspicious. Macte! Walker's geometry, with its points, lines, angles, &c., is a good employment for an adept in mathematics, like yourself. ... Read your course of history by all means. If you mean to grapple with the law, dissect the feudal system. Your reading is a fortune. Stearns wrote, Oct. 8, Hopkinson tells me you are all absorbed in mathematics, and are making rapid progress in the study of that long neglected science.