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...might say that tranquility has returned to the University of Pennsylvania campus. But somehow, all the action, chaos and feverish excitement of Ivy Championship weekend did not really upset the daily routine at Penn. The benefits of hosting the weekend proved numerous, far overshadowing the inevitable hassles tournament sponsors encounter...
...life was more relaxed and pleasant than here. The tempo was slower, the deadlines were less deadly. Here I learned that often you have to sacrifice your own private life in order to be successful in photography. This kind of work is nerve-racking and stressful. Periods of feverish activity alternate with periods of exhaustion and recovery. If I could relive my life, I would try to work less for others and more for myself...
Henry Sturgis Crosby's early life was as dull and conventional as possible. So was Harry Crosby himself. Throughout his adolescent years at St. Mark's, Harry displayed no sign of the feverish eccentricity that was to characterize the rest of his life. He was a mediocre student, and a mediocre athlete headed for an undistinguished career at Harvard until the war intervened. At 19, he headed for France. His four-year stint in the American Ambulance Corps presumably spurred the development of his macabre sensibility, but Geoffrey Wolff offers virtually no explanation as to why experiences shared...
Whitlock describes that period between 1972 and 1974 as a bleak one at Harvard, when students were caught up in feverish competition. Not that students don't worry about grades now, he points out; but between '74 and '72, he says, students seemed terribly afraid of failure. They already felt they had failed as revolutionaries by getting out of politics, he says, and they could not tell what would happen to them if they also failed in getting into professional schools...
...devastation caused by infectious diseases, local communities were forced to form boards of health, which established quarantine measures and tried to provide for sanitary engineering. Infectious disease was thought to be the result of noxious vapors emanating from decaying animal and vegetable matter. Therefore, in addition to isolating feverish individuals, much of the health boards' time was spent attempting to improve sewage and garbage disposal...