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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1863. (search)
in New York; at New Haven, Connecticut; and finally at Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was a pupil of the Academy. In July, 1859, he entered the Freshman Class of Harvard University. In College he was genial, frank, and popular. His college lifconceived the idea of entering college, he returned to his studies, under the instruction of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, and in July, 1859, was admitted to the Freshman Class. In college he displayed the same characteristics as at school. While faithful spend two years in the public Latin School, to fit himself for college. He entered the Freshman Class at Cambridge in July, 1859. Before this time he had devoted a good deal of attention to music, vocal and instrumental, occupying such leisure as scheme was opposed by his parents, he yielded a cheerful acquiescence to their wishes, and entered Harvard College in July, 1859. There he pursued his studies for two years, and received the approbation of his teachers; there also he formed many w