{"id":1159,"date":"2023-12-04T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/?page_id=1159"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:00:15","slug":"samuel-newman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/rate-my-professors\/samuel-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-676x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-768x1163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-1015x1536.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-1353x2048.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2023\/12\/SamuelNewman-scaled.jpg 1691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50  Goes Out of His Way to Be Helpful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I have for several days past been quite unwell with the Measles, but am now recovered. Mr. &amp; Mrs. Newman treated me with much care, and I staid at their house while I was sick.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne to his mother, Nov. 13, 1821<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50  Lacks the Respect of Students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>S. P. Newman, our professor of languages, in not more than 22 or 23 years old. He is a good scholar, and at present, very pleasant to the students.  When he was first chosen professor, he was rather too arbitrary to suit the higher classes.  The the present senior class, then junior, pretty effectually humbled him&#8230;.One morning he found his windows broken, and a barber&#8217;s pole pushed through. &#8211; The government tried, in vain, to discover the author of this, but never succeeded.  &#8211; Since this scrape, Newman has been very assiduous to please all the students.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gorham Deane to his brother, Nov. 10, 1821<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50  A Rat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He was courteous, refined, and scholarly; yet he was swift-footed and prompt to detect and bring to grief innocent lads enjoying their little amusements, such as lighting bonfires, smashing tutors&#8217; windows, burning powerder in various ways, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horatio Bridge, <em>Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne <\/em>(1893)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Goes Out of His Way to Be Helpful I have for several days past been quite unwell with the Measles, but am now recovered. Mr. &amp; Mrs. Newman treated me with much care, and I staid at their house while I was sick. Nathaniel Hawthorne to his mother, Nov. 13, 1821 \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Lacks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1159","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions\/1323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/class-of-1825\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}