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Chapter 3: college days at Bowdoin; United States Military Academy
After rising every day except Sundays for three weeks at four o'clock and continuing work until near midnight during the final preparation for college; and after the subsequent trying examinations early in September, one may imagine, weariness and apathy succeeded.
I was glad enough to get home to my friends and have a short vacation.
The good air, the good water, and the wholesome food at home soon restored me to my normal condition, and father took me to
Bowdoin for the fall term, which at that time commenced during the last week in September.
Soon after reaching
Bowdoin, before I was fairly settled in my college room in the south end of North Hall, I met a young man,
Peleg Sprague Perley, who had belonged to the previous freshman class, but being kept away by illness so much of the year he had concluded to join the class to which I belonged.
He was a year my senior in age, and his mother had been in early life my mother's neighbor and school friend, so we readily formed an acquaintance and agreed to room together.
He was about my height, with a fair physique, but one hardly strong enough in our trying climate to give him the endurance which his mental capacity and his ambitions demanded.
He had a large head and a very active brain.
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