Unglue from New England 'emasculate scholarship'

The Boston Latin School, founded in 1635 as the first public school in America.

“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.’’

— Francis Parkman Jr. (1823-1893), Boston-based historian, including of the American West.