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X The poet Dana, father of Richard Dana gave a course of six lectures on poetry in the old college chapel. They were exquiste [sic], subtle, most poetical but rather over the heads of sweet sixteen and college boys. But these, as all our lectures were given in the evening, affording a delightful sort of a time, as we were invited by our gentleman friends, strolling slowly up the long hill under their escort, and more slowly back to our homes, under the stars after the lecture was over. [handwritten: "And no chaperone"! I hear the conventional modern exclaim -- No such order was even heard of in those days! -- Poor chaperones they earn their honors protecting the budding beauties of to-days ball-room -- My experience of it in my late years in society I found too tedious to be ?. But of the lectures H bMS Am 1118.95, Box 9
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Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 25, 2008 |
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