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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)
s may succeed a youth hot with passion of all kinds. Works, Vol. V. pp. 236-239. Stearns was the grandson of Rev. Jonathan French, of Andover, whose care for Sumner's father as a boy has already been mentioned. Formerly a clergyman in Newburyport, he is now the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J. He took high rank in college, and has fulfilled his early promise. Hopkinson received the highest honors in the class. He was as a student quite mature, and was older than mos at his full height, he was among the tallest of his class. Socially, as I remember him, he was amiable and gentlemanly in his intercourse with his classmates, and uniformly respectful to the College Faculty. Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Emery, of Newburyport, writes:— The classes in college at that time, as I suppose is the case still, were divided into divisions alphabetically. Of course, as I was nearer the beginning of the alphabet, I was not in Sumner's sections, except when, for sake o