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Those who are fond of discussing the subject of 'Harvard and the Liberal Education' can gain some pointers at the Stadium almost any Saturday afternoon. An education which fails to teach its recipient to cheer when his team wins and not to complain when the wind blows easterly, though it may be a liberal education, it is not the education...
...understand that the statement attributed to Coach Blaik, that Bill Hutchinson might need assistance in the form of crutches to get to the field, is false. We are very glad, for we are very fond of last year's "mudder" Hutch and his backfield buddies, Captain MacLeod and Colby Howe. Hutchinson has scored 14 touchdowns and seven extra points in 13 games, not to mention one field goal; MacLeod has the nice round total of 19 t-downs in 19 clashes; while Howe has paid off ten times in his two years...
When death came to his Aunt Sue, of whom he was very fond, he recalls: "I strove to bury sorrow in work, continuing my investigations of the various rots of the sweet potato." Some cuttings from The World Was My Garden...
...your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began to see them as people like other people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable. And because you saw them thus, curiously enough you became more fond of them. ..." Simply written and often moving, Those First Affections gives the impression that Sarah's father was unlucky in everything but his owlish, tactful, kind-hearted daughter...
Readers of Alcott's Journals are likely to feel about Alcott much as New Englanders of his day did-first interested, then exasperated, ultimately admiring and fond. Alcott was no parlor philosopher...