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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
Somebody's ideal of a man. Is it not literally true of him? If not, I never saw the person to whom it could be applied. He is certainly very brave, (you know courage was my favorite virtue,) and as certainly he is beautifully gentle. It was Jack's great ambition as an undergraduate to excel in all athletic and manly sports. It almost broke his heart,—I write it seriously,—when he was judged not strong enough for a place in the picked crew of the Harvard. He could have borne almost anyt read through regularly once a term, and he would pore over a deep passage of Tennyson or Wordsworth with an avidity that would have won him signal Commencement honors had it been turned in another direction. But the trait that most distinguished Jack was unquestionably his quick sense of the ludicrous. By all odds he was the best humorist we had. I was next him alphabetically, and the tedium of the recitation-room was brightened for four years by his drollery. I remember he used always to wr