tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8470050065026260680..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “I hope he will pass muster”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-43573308399411252572017-01-19T23:22:13.743-05:002017-01-19T23:22:13.743-05:00At this time Charles was at Harvard College, Thoma...At this time Charles was at Harvard College, Thomas Boylston still in his early teens. I don't think they had offered disappointments yet. But as the eldest son, John Quincy carried the highest hopes from the beginning.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-7297239808767993072017-01-19T16:07:23.764-05:002017-01-19T16:07:23.764-05:00I suspect by this point both John and Abigail reco...I suspect by this point both John and Abigail recognized the potential of their other two sons, and while Nabby might well have been a force had she lived in another time, in 1787 it was likely looked to them that J.Q. was the hope for the next generation of Adamses. <br /><br />John and Abigail always seem to me so "modern" in their middle class striving, still over-compensating for not being members of the pre-Revolution American aristocracy, a social status Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe could take for granted. G. Lovelynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-61473328940124765912017-01-19T14:55:43.125-05:002017-01-19T14:55:43.125-05:00When Samuel Adams and John Hancock went to the Bos...When Samuel Adams and John Hancock went to the Boston Latin School, its only curriculum was Latin and Greek—no English, no science, no mathematics, no history (except what came up from reading classical historians), and so on. That was supposedly what a (white, usually wealthy) boy needed to go on to Harvard. <br /><br />But when John Quincy was preparing, he not only studied Latin and Greek but also other European languages and mathematics. And, as I’ll note in a few days, he aimed to take courses at college in "natural philosophy"—i.e., science. So we're seeing a broadening in the subjects a young gentleman was expected to know. <br /><br />And that, of course, affected Presidents that came after. Some were highly educated men, such as Garfield, Roosevelt, and Wilson. But the nature of education had changed to become more modern and more practical. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-43218994462051908722017-01-19T11:36:58.346-05:002017-01-19T11:36:58.346-05:00How fascinating.
I daresay he was probably the l...How fascinating. <br /><br />I daresay he was probably the last US President to read or understand any of those works!<br /><br />I had three years of Latin and didn't read any of those works. The only thing I recall is veni vidi vici and non illegitimus carborundum. <br /><br />I really enjoy my daily reading of Boston 1775. Well done every day.Randy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.com