Capitolo 62
education, he got anything nothing from them or them from him
up to how long after they had left the university. Possibly the guilt was
his, but one would like to know how many others divided him/it.
Accident counts for very in company as in marriage. Life
only offered perhaps a result of possible companions, and it is
mere opportunity if theirs meet as soon as the school or the university, but
it is more than an opportunity that boys brought together on under likes
conditions don't have anything to give each other. The Class of 1858, to
what Henry Adams belonged, it was a harvest typical of young New
Englanders, quietly penetrating and aggressively the common place;
free from meannesses, the jealousies, intrigues, enthusiasms and
passions; not unusually rapid; not knowingly sceptic;
singly indifferent to show, artifice, florid expression,
but not hostile to him when it amused them; mistrustful of
them, but few prepared to have trust in some one other; with not
a lot of humor of them really, but full of the promptness to enjoy the humor
of others; you disapprove to a degree that in the long run you/he/she is become
positive and triumphant. Not sour in manners or he/she judges, rather
liberal and of wide views, them anchor they were more anymore as a body the
critics a formidable would desire to meet in an exposed long life,
to the criticism. They never adulated, it rarely praised; free from
vanities, were not them of it intolerant; but they was
same objectiveness; their attitude was a law of nature; them
you judge over appeal, not an action both intellect or the emotion
or of the wish but a kind of gravitation.
This was the university in Harvard embodied, but equal for Harvard
University, the Class of 1858 was rather extreme. Of unity this
ribbon of almost one hundred young men didn't have acute sense but them
it had equally small energy of repulsion. They was pleasant to
long live with, and above of the average of students--German, French,
The English or that that not--but mainly because every individual
appeared satisfied to be standing alone. It seemed a signal of strength; still