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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 4 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
Works Vol. I. p. 241. His college quarterly-bills, including board in commons and tuition, varied from twenty-eight to thirty-six dollars. In college his compositions were largely poetical. Among his themes of this kind were, Non omnia possumus omnes, Winter, and a Dialogue between Churchill the Warrior and Churchill the Poet. At the end of his Junior year, he delivered before the Speaking Club a valedictory poem, on the occasion of his classmates leaving it. At the exhibition in September, 1795, his part was a poem, entitled The Compass, which was printed in a pamphlet. It contains these lines:— More true inspir'd, we antedate the time When futile war shall cease throa every clime; No sanction'd slavery Afric's sons degrade, But equal rights shall equal earth pervade. As a grateful acknowledgment of this poem, his college friends presented him with copies of Shakspeare and Young's Night Thoughts. When his class had completed their studies, he delivered (June 21, 17