tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post5399719164643802470..comments2024-03-25T09:01:20.997-07:00Comments on Diary of an Autodidact: Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by Tamara ThorntonDiary of an Autodidacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-57984803782870852352016-11-16T10:16:57.716-08:002016-11-16T10:16:57.716-08:00Isn't that the truth! College students behavin...Isn't that the truth! College students behaving badly, protesting, doing stunts. It's almost as if humans are basically the same across time...Diary of an Autodidacthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-15876208233417733992016-11-16T09:24:48.822-08:002016-11-16T09:24:48.822-08:00IIRC Bowditch was Nathaniel Hawthorne's second...IIRC Bowditch was Nathaniel Hawthorne's second cousin.<br /><br />There's some funny "the more things change..." moments about college in Marsden's biography of Jonathan Edwards too, only in that case it's early 1700s Yale. Students behaving badly, drinking too much, staging some kind of walkout/protest because the food sucks and is too expensive. All of course scandalizing teenage Jonathan Edwards...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com