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XXI.
William James Rolfe
The man of one book (homo unius libri) whom St. Thomas Aquinas praised has now pretty nearly vanished from th Francis Parkman was the most conspicuous representative, and William James Rolfe is perhaps the most noticeable successor,--a man who, upon a our public schools, and thus indirectly in our colleges.
William James Rolfe, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, was born on DeRolfe, was born on December 1, 1827, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a rural city which has been the home at different times of a number of literary and public men chief avenue and ocean outlook, found attractive by all visitors.
Rolfe's boyhood, however, was passed mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, whe dded to the original departments of Latin, Greek, and mathematics.
Rolfe's boys enjoyed the studies in English literature, but feared lest t r on Shakespeare, was one of these boys.
In the summer of 1857 Mr. Rolfe was invited to take charge of the high school at Lawrence, Massac