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...Abbot’s wife, Katie Lauren, became pregnant, and he wrote to tell her not to buy a cradle—the Abbot baby would be the first from the Class of 1859, and it was customary for the class to donate...
...Sullivan equates him with an average Harvard student of today—he stayed out late, was the victim of pranks and carried on a long-distance relationship. Abbot even belonged to a freshman society (“Anonyma”) which occasionally got drunk together...
Unlike today, Abbot didn’t go running to the proctor for a warm cup of tea and a warrant for a dean’s warning...
...This is one of the best personal journals we have,” Sullivan says. “It even has dialogue, and you normally don’t see that kind of thing.” If Ever Two Were One includes a dialogue Abbot had with Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, on the craft of poetry, and other entries suggest he was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, as well as Thoreau...
...incident, Abbot calls the student body to an assembly and declares himself to be a “systematic deceiver”—for wearing eyeglasses to make himself appear smarter...