“‘Tis Sixty Years Since‪”‬

In 1853, Charles Francis Adams entered Harvard; sixty years later, he stood before the University of South Carolina—a future he says he would have called scarcely credible. Between those thresholds lay old friendships, a nation’s rupture, and a lifetime of surprises.

Speaking on Founders’ Day in 1913, Adams looks back to the young man who crossed Harvard’s threshold and began, as he puts it, a life of responsibility. He remembers South Carolinians who were his college friends, and the cruel distance history placed between men who had once known one another well. Now, from a South Carolina rostrum, this New Englander weighs the hopes of his youth against a transformed country and the unforeseen consequences of his generation’s choices. What did sixty years teach him about the dreams that had once seemed sure?

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