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...have received the encomiums of the speakers with a certain sense that I have not fully understood. One of them said that I had an unsual amount of courage. That has never entered my mind. I confess to recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...
...confess I receive with great delight what the President of the University said about the spreading influence of Harvard in the present day. I recognize that I have been unusually strong and had unusually good health, and that a great deal of the influence I have exerted,--what has been described as my personality, is derived from those two facts,--strength and health. And with those two things, strength and health, went a great joy in work, just in work. I need not stop to consider why I had joy in work. I never looked in enough to think...
Without detracting from Harvard's improvement it is only fair to confess that the Worcester Engineers failed to match their Hemenway performance. Parsons, stellar guard, was missing from the line-up and the two men tried to fill his shoes were ineffective. Sharpe showed flashes of sensational play, but Rudofsky did not give him a moment's peace all the evening...
...probably the only latter-day poet that can catch their authentic note. And the songs incorporated in the play show that he has not forgotten how to write lyrics as they should be written. It is a good play, almost a great play. And yet (shamefacedly I confess it) I prefer his earlier, and therefore presumably less mature work. For there is no one can write as he can of the sea, and of them that go down, to the sea in ships...
...Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman knelt over the grave of Pedro, she, not knowing of the crime, to pray for the dead man, and he, pretending to, unseen...