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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, III: the boy student (search)
ents in the parlour, &c. This letter to his boon companion, Parker, has no date, but was undoubtedly written somewhat early in his college career:— Oh be joyful—hooray—hooray—Interviewed the eccentric brick this morning and he informs me that the term begins three weeks from next Monday —id est, the 2nd Monday after Commencement. Glorious, glorious—engage the horse & wagon, get a fresh supply of powder & shot, have your duck pants washed, brush up the Eminent, sharpen the knife and Jack,—and please the pigs we'll be off yet. . . I cut my oration Monday and devoted the day to botanizing, which cheered me wonderfully and I feel quite nice now.] At the end of his sophomore year, he resolved to be fourth or fifth scholar, and a month later his diary contained this caution:— Look out, Higginson, or your resolution, top of page 13, will go to grass! The college term closed on July 19, and he wrote on that day:— My Sophomore year is now over, this day c