Word: things
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With tragic suddenness, all this is snatched away and we are left to wonder how it is that such a man be taken out of a world that needed him. The ways of death are hard to interpret, but two things we know and it is well to recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been...
...accomplish something, graduation puts an abrupt end to its opportunity. Next fall another equally green set takes charge. Thus there can never be any real continuity of purpose. With such a complete change of personality every year, gradual, careful construction of a system in athletics or in any thing else is not to be expected...
Other noteworthy articles are "The Dog's View of It," "How Our Coming Orators are Cultivated," and a short sketch purporting to be written by the author of "Jerome Poor Thing...
...indeed admitted in the dedication that the book can lay no claim to being representative of Harvard, but this inconspicuous statement will be overlooked or soon forgotten by the average reader, and a distorted picture of life here will thus be circulated. If such a thing were possible, it would do no harm to confine the circulation of "Harvard Episodes" to Harvard undergraduates...
...elsewhere, need of special arrangements to bring the members of teams into close companionship, but it is not to be doubted that even in the colleges which are free from that particular disadvantage, much might be gained by the establishment of an athletic club-house. It is a good thing to have the men eat together, and better yet to have them live together. The practical working of the plan will be watched with much interest...