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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
rts, held March 19, 1829. On his motion, its first catalogue of past and present members was made and printed; and he was one of the committee appointed to prepare it. He was, when a Senator, accustomed to send books to its library. Some of his class, in their Senior year, formed a private society for mutual improvement, keeping even its existence a secret, and calling it The Nine, from their number. They were Hopkinson, Stearns, Sumner, Browne, Warren, Worcester, Appleton, Carter, and McBurney. They met in each other's rooms, read essays, and each in turn made up a record, generally of an amusing kind, to be read at the next meeting. On Nov. 2, 1829, Sumner read, in 22 Holworthy, Hopkinson's and Carter's room. an essay on the English Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, which he had just published in a newspaper, with the signature of Amicus. Independent Chronicle and Boston Patriot, Oct. 29, 31. It is a historical account of their origin and methods of administration an
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)
and declined the offer. In January, he taught for three weeks at Brookline, filling a temporary vacancy in the school of Mr. L. V. Hubbard (where his classmate McBurney was an usher), which was kept in a stone building modelled after the Greek style, and is still standing on Boylston Street. This brief experience as a school-teaonathan F. Stearns. Sunday, Feb. 13, 1881. my friend,—. . . I have for three weeks been trying to rear the tender thought, as an assistant to our old friend, McBurney, at Mr. Hubbard's school. Mr. H. had to go to Vermont, and he engaged me to assist in the duties of instruction during his absence. And oh!—quorum magna pars fies, and should like to assist in removing the secrecy from the *f. B. K. It will not hurt it; it will benefit it. There is nothing for which they need blush. McBurney and Hopkinson were here last evening, and spent in my room a kind of old college evening. I shall expect to pass a like time with you soon. C. S. To Charlema
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 6: Law School.—September, 1831, to December, 1833.—Age, 20-22. (search)
y the lines I have just quoted,—the best of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner,—but rather that I seize the lines to express and illustrate my feeling. This communication is made in the fulness of friendship and confidence. To your charity and continued interest in my welfare, suffer me to commend myself as Your affectionate friend, Chas. Sumner. P. S.—Browne has left Cambridge, and is for the winter at Salem. Hopkinson has also left, and is with H. H. Fuller in Boston. McBurney has a charge in Boston, which keeps him happy and busy,—the former par consequence from the latter. I feel quite alone. My chief company is the letters of my friends. Write me. C. S. To Charlemagne Tower. Sunday night, May 5, 1838. my dear Tower,—. . . Since my last, our junior professor Professor Ashmun.—as you have seen by the papers and by the eulogy I had the pleasure of sending to you—has died. His death, though for a long time anticipated, yet had a degree of su