![]() Here, four years could be completed in four months. No one takes the school seriously, he reports it teaches very little and that, poorly. He concludes that Henry's prep school experience was a complete waste of time, an "intolerable bore," and completed with "unqualified joy." Even at his birth, he says, he was too mature for this curriculum! Six years of such study could be surpassed in one even then, it would have little merit. The narrator's evaluation of formal education is negative beyond reason. Again, Adams tells his readers that education has not yet commenced. Despite efforts at self-effacement, he does seem pleased to be elected Class Orator in a close contest against the class's top scholar (Henry says he himself was an average student) who is, Adams insists, the more popular fellow. Henry condemns the course of study at Harvard but blames himself, as well, for his failure to advance in intellect or maturity. Lee, and claims to like them but his descriptions of the students reveal a deep prejudice against all Southerners. Henry becomes acquainted with several Virginians at Harvard, including the son of Robert E. The narrator has very little good to say of either experience. Dixwell, Boston, in June of 1854 and begins collegiate studies at Harvard on August 31. Henry completes the preparatory course of study at the private Latin School of E. ![]()
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