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Diary of a College Boy
2013
Overview
Charles Ellis Jr. of Richmond enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1834, in the heart of its early, wild years, and the diary he left provides perhaps the only complete snapshot of daily student life—its tedium, its joys, its dangers, its burdens, and the perennial yearnings of youth for love and an adventurous life.¹ The diary recorded Ellis’s second year at school in a three-month period from March 10, 1835, to June 25, 1835. The diary gives readers more than just a running account of violence and misbehavior. It details how students studied, with whom they associated, how
