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November (search for this): chapter 4
t is not beautiful until overhung with the mosses and veiled in the shadows of the Past. . . . I think the free communion with Nature in past years has done much for my mental health. Those long afternoons in the woods with no care, no solicitude as to time and place, no companion but my tin box. . . . That Bigelow's Botany of mine is the most precious book I have—not a page of it but is redolent of summer sounds, senses and images. But he never became reconciled to his work, and wrote in November: To Teaching I have an utter and entire aversion—I love children passionately and am able to attach them and to discipline them, but I am not fitted for an intellectual guide and I hate the office; and added I read the Theory of Teaching (which put me in despair). The school was often held out of doors, and one of the features was a course of talks to the boys on animals. In 1852, Higginson wrote to Harriet Prescott:— When I was of your age and had scholars like you,—or as you w
December 24th (search for this): chapter 4
e read one of his poetical effusions to his family and they laughed at its sentimentality, which enraged me . . . went to bed angry and feeling unappreciated. Resolved to show them no more poetry. The youth's imagination was as vivid as a child's, and after reading Undine he wrote, Just now I heard a noise outside the window and looked up in hopes it was Kuhleborn—oh, how dreadful it is to be in a land where there are no supernatural beings visible—not even any traditions of them! Christmas evening of that year was spent in serenading a Cambridge belle; but his companion, Levi Thaxter, escaping at a critical point, Wentworth, according to his journal, broke down in the song Love wakes and weeps, and made an absurd exit, scrambling over fences.... Home and gladly took off my horridly pinching boots—spent the evening sociably, reading Brother Jonathan and eating burnt almonds. In addition to school perplexities, the unfortunate tutor's serenity was sometimes disturbed by the s<
August (search for this): chapter 4
IV: the young pedagogue Shortly before graduation, Wentworth Higginson began looking about for employment, and in June, 1841, was engaged by Mr. Samuel Weld, of Jamaica Plain, as assistant in his school for boys, at six hundred dollars per year. In August he wrote Parker, I succeeded in getting a good room [at Jamaica Plain] for $25 the year and board from $3 to $4 [per month]. Settled in this new room, he began at once another journal. He was at first in a quandary as to whom it should be dedicated to, but finally decided on three girl friends and added, Now to business. Homesickness assailed him at first, but after a few days he got rather more comfortable, reading The Flirt and those beautiful poetical passages in the Devil's Progress. Apparently the young pedagogue, as he calls himself, had no trouble in teaching the boys or making friends with them. He took them with him on his long rambles in search of flowers, and describes a tramp around Jamaica Pond in cloth boo
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