Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reaches this responsibility attacks the problems it must meet to the very best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to 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...
...fall of 1887 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated with the class of '90. He there became interested in athletics and played football, first on his class, and then on his school team...
During his college course he returned each summer to his home at Great Barrington, and took up his duties on the farm. In the fall of 1894 he coached the Cornell University football team with remarkable success. After this he again resumed his duties at home, where he remained the greater part of the next two years, except for a brief period, when he was in Boston, in the office of Lorin F. Deland. Each year he was found ready to aid in the coaching of the different teams at Harvard, and his appearance at Cambridge was always greeted with...
...fall of '96 he entered the employ of the Boston and Albany R. R. as Assistant Superintendent of the Springfield Division, a position in which he gained the confidence of all those with whom he came in contact, and which he held up to the time of his death. He was killed on the tracks at Sprinfield, on the evening of December 24th, 1897, while attending to his duties...
Herbert Alward '91, died at Chicago on Dec. 21, after a long illness of typhoid fever. His is a well known name among Harvard men. In the spring of '90 he played third base on the nine, and in the fall of the same year substituted Upton at left tackle in the game with Yale. He was also an expert wrestler...