William Orne White a Record of Ninety Years

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HARVARD COLLEGE 1836-1840 William Orne White entered Harvard College in 1836, in time to be present at its two hundredth anniversary. He shared his college quarters with Edward B. Peirson, of Salem, who was most congenial and who was his warm friend to the end of Dr. Peirson's life. That first year they roomed at i Holworthy, and the young Freshman says, in writing to his father, "Things look quite comfortable now in Number One; that is the number you know we are told we must all look out for"; and he adds, "The Sophomores have been about for two or three evenings, and they took care of Number One." Cambridge was so much nearer home than Exeter that there were many chances for seeing his family, and his letters therefore were less frequent. They give, however, a vivid picture of the Harvard of