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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, On an old Latin text-book. (search)
On an old Latin text-book.
I remember the very day when the schoolmaster gave it to me. He was that vigorous, rigorous, kind-hearted, thorough-bred Englishman, W. W. It was the beginning of a new school-year.
Lowell and Story and the other old boys, who seemed so immeasurably ancient, had been transferred to college; and last year's youngest class was at length youngest but one, and ready for the New Latin Tutor.
Then W. W. called us to his desk, and, opening it,--I can hear the very rattle of the. birch as it rolled back from the uplifted lid,--he brought out for us these books, in all the glory of fresh calf binding, and gave each volume into trembling, boyish hands.
To some of us there was always more of birch than of bounty in the immediate associations of that desk, and I fancy that we always trembled a little when we had a new book, as if all the potential floggings which it might involve were already tingling between its covers.
Yet those of us whose love of the book w