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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 4 (search)
, after a half century's lapse, is that of the utter impossibility of casting in advance the horoscope of a whole set of young men. The class numbered several who afterwards won distinction in different walks in life; and while the actual careers of some might have been predicted, there were other lives which could not possibly have been anticipated by any of us. It required no great foresight to guess that Edward Clarke and Francis Minot would be physicians, and even eminent ones; that Rufus Woodward, of Worcester, would also be a physician, and a naturalist besides; that Thomas Church Haskell Smith, of Ohio, who was universally known among us as Captain Smith, and was the natural leader of the class, in case of civil war would become Major-General Smith, and chief of staff in the Army of the Potomac. Wickham Hoffman, of New York, showed in college the same steadfast and manly qualities which made him also prominent during the war as a staff officer at New Orleans, and afterwards as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
. Wendell, Barrett, 52. Wentworth, Amy, 8. Weyman, Stanley, 29. Whewell, William, 92, 101. Whipple, E. P., 170, 176. White, A. D. , 312. White, Blanco, 183. White, William, 126. White fugitive slaves, 146. Whitman, Walt, 230, 231, 289. Whittier, J. G., 8, 111, 128, 132, 133, 134, 135, 168, 171, 178, 179, 180, 185, 237. Whittier, Elizabeth, 133, 134. Wightman, Mayor, 244. Wilberforce, William, 327. Wilder, S. V. S., 10. Willis, Mr. 233. Willis, N. P., 95, 271. Wilson, Billy, 231. Wimpffen, General, 324 Wines, E. C., 310. Winkelried, Arnold, 154. Winnemucca, Sarah, 87. Winthrop, R. C., 53. Winthrop, Theodore, 107. Wise, H. A., 224, 225. Woman's Rights Movement, 120. Woman Suffrage, 121. Woodward, Rufus, 62. Wordsworth, William, 69, 194, 272, 294, 338. Wnght, H. C., 113. Wyman, J C., 176, 178. Xanthus, 112. Zaccone, M., 313. Zamacois, Eduardo, 295. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton and co.