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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
scraps of paper that reposed on the table— and continues:— How thankful I and you ought to be, my beloved Son, for the pure and firm health which has enabled you without interruption to give yourself to your College Studies. Judging from the next report, he could hardly have posed for a grave and reverend senior:— The Prex sent for me. . . . He found I'd cut 17 prayers. . . . I must look out. Rather a bore, for I shall have to cut some more for skating. . . . I went to see Fowler, the Phrenologist at the Marlboroa . . . said I had splendid talents but no application. . . . Lovering says I'm the greatest trouble he has in recitation, and has deducted for whispering frequently. At this age, as well as in maturer years, Higginson was easily lulled to sleep by monotonous lectures or sermons. His college journal reports:— Slept throa sermon, hymn, prayer, read'g proclamation and blessing. Pleasant! Fellows laughed at me a good deal. And of a lecture, he s