the Thoreau Log.
2 December 1833. Cambridge, Mass.

Henry D. Thoreau starts his second term at Harvard, enrolling in the following classes:

  • Algebra taught by Benjamin Peirce
  • History; reading Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern by Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Greek composition, grammar, and antiquities taught by Christopher Dunkin; reading Xenophon’s Anabasis
  • Latin taught by Henry S. McKean; reading Charles Folsom’s Livy and Horace’s Odes
  • Latin composition, grammar, and antiquities taught by Charles Beck; reading A Grammar of the Latin Language by Karl Gottlob Zumpt
(Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:13)

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