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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 3 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 2: (search)
eed. Whenever in after life she heard his name, this salutation came to her impressively, knowing as she did the strict integrity of his life. He continued five years at the Latin School; when, at the age of fifteen, he was found well prepared for entering Harvard College, whose terms of admission were somewhat less exacting than at present. In the year 1826 he commenced his studies in the classic halls of Cambridge. Among his classmates were, Thomas C. Amory, Jonathan W. Bemis, James Dana, Samuel M. Emery, John B. Kerr, Elisha R. Potter, Jonathan F. Stearns, George W. Warren, and Samuel T. Worcester. The accomplished John T. Kirkland was president of the university; and among the instructors were Edward T. Channing in rhetoric, Levi Hedge in logic, George Otis in Latin, John S. Popkin in Greek, George Ticknor in modern languages, and John Farrar in natural science. His room during his first year was No. 17, Stoughton Hall. In person he was at that time unusually tall for a
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 3: (search)
inciples. Not content with the decisions of the courts, he ransacked every nook and corner of historic lore, that he might settle legal questions on the solid grounds of equity and justice. He made himself acquainted with the contents of every volume that the Law-School library, of which he had the charge, contained; and it is said that there was not a book in that valuable collection which he could not lay his hand upon immediately in the dark. When he entered the Law School, says Judge James Dana, he buckled on his armor and went to his studies with a will, and soon became the leading man in the school, for which he always manifested a strong interest. Mr. Justice Story was a fine belles-lettres scholar, an earnest lover of the beautiful, the good, and true; and remarkable for his conversational powers, as well as for his genial urbanity, his radiant smile, and graceful manner. Between him and Mr. Sumner, whose eager mind was open to the charming influences of such a sweet-tem
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
sold out to the horse railroad. Before the consolidation of the rival stage lines, competition was so great that cabs were put on for the purpose of calling at private residences for passengers upon proper notice being given. The Harvard Branch had a brief existence. It was a spur from the Fitchburg Railroad to a point near the Common, between the Law School and the Gymnasium in Old Cambridge. Its officers were Gardiner G. Hubbard, president, and Dr. Estes Howe, treasurer, who, with James Dana, of Charlestown, Oliver Hastings, Joseph W. Ward, and William L. Whitney, of Cambridge, constituted the board of directors. The Cambridge Railroad was incorporated in 1853, and was leased soon afterwards to the Union Railway. The story of the beginnings of this road, by Mr. Frederick T. Stevens, for many years its treasurer, is of exceeding interest:— The Union Railway Company was incorporated under the laws of this commonwealth and approved by the governor, Henry J. Gardner, May