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Title: The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Edward Everett, 1863-1932
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Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Idid not go home for an hour or two, besides theregular Saturday holiday. We were also allowedtwo Sundays in each term to spend at home andwe always claimed them. It is true that his college journal records manya walk in town, and doubtless true also that he en-joyed the family life more than his life in college.But it should also be said that the journal recordsvery little in the way of dissatisfaction with mo-notony, and on the other hand puts down a greatmany things that were undoubtedly keenly interest-ing to him. A year or so after graduation he hadstill left a pleasing impression, at least of his lateryears. He wrote to Samuel Longfellow, who wasabout to move into his old room in Massachusetts,that it was the place in which he had passed thehappiest times of his life. Probably both impres-sions are well founded. In Freshman year thingswould naturally have come hard on a boy so youngand so accustomed to a gay and lively family cir-cle. But as he became used to college life, more
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