Magazines and newspapers arrived by every mail.
Thus she was thoroughly abreast with the times.
As Bernard grew up, he learned to value associating with his mother above every other pleasure.

She superintended his literary training and cultivated in him a yearning for literature of the highest and purest type.

Politics, science, art, religion, sociology, and, in fact, the whole realm of human knowledge was invaded and explored.
Such home training was an invaluable supplement to what Bernard received in school.

When, therefore, he entered Harvard, he at once moved to the front rank in every particular.

Many white young men of wealth and high social standing, attracted by his brilliancy, drew near him and became his fast friends.