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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
that they had heard of f. B. K. and as they already had nine Greek letter societies it would be nice to have ten! In the college journal, the event is thus recorded: August, 1840. f. B. K. day—the greatest of my life so far. Rushed round till 9 on committee business—having carried the ribbons to Wheeler's room and put on my medal. . . . I went in [to dinner] later than was necessary—Judge Story and the grandees sat at the raised West end. First course I had was roast beef carved by White Simmons. 2nd, plum pudding and apple pie, then wine, fruit and segars—Passed a charming afternoon, lots of wit— the Judge always ready and always witty, as President. In the spring of his Junior year, Wentworth wrote:— Such a smile as today's! The 2nd English Oration, a first Bowdoin prize and good pieces accepted in the magazine—and I am for the present perfectly happy. During the senior year he roomed in a dormitory, and enumerated for his mother's benefit these modes
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
ossoms will last awhile . . . .How funny some of the rumors were about the capture of our expedition—one Democratic paper writing my obituary! Meantime the delay of payment caused more or less anxiety, though promises kept up hope. The paymaster writes, recorded the Colonel, that he is really making up our payrolls and we shall probably be paid in a week or ten days. The infinite pains Colonel Higginson took to keep his men in good training is revealed in such notes as these:— White soldiers [are seen] with coats unbuttoned and black with them buttoned; for this is a cardinal point with me, you know, and my test of the condition of a regiment; if a man begins with swearing and stealing, bad practices grow and you always find him at last with his coat unbuttoned. In Army Life, Colonel Higginson tells of his delight in studying the characteristics of his men and of listening to their spirituals, but occasionally in his journal or letters are bits of description not he
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Bibliography (search)
on Report. Pph. (Comp.) A Book of American Explorers. (In Young Folks' Series.) Book notices and editorials. (In Nation, Woman's Journal.) A portion of the book notices in the Nation were called Poetry of the Month, later entitled Recent Poetry. The reviews were continued to Feb., 1904. 1878 (Cambridge—trip to Europe） Speech at Conference of Liberal Thinkers, London, June 13. Pph. Letter on Physical and Intellectual Habits. (In Holbrook. Hygiene of the Brain Nerves.) R. G. White. (In Atlantic Monthly, May. Contributors' Club.) Some War Scenes Revisited. (In Atlantic Monthly, July.) Reprinted in Def. II under the title Fourteen Years After. Saxe Holm's Botany. (In Atlantic Monthly, July. Contributors' Club.) An Irish Heart. (In Scribner's Monthly, Dec.） Editorials. (In Woman's Journal.) 1879 (Cambridge, from this time) Short Studies of American Authors. First published in the Literary World. Intercollegiate Literary Association: Its Hi<