Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call his death an untimely one, and yet, is it not as true today as it was nineteen hundred years ago, in the time of Him whose birthday we have just celebrated, that it is the quality of a man's life and not the quantity which is the only true test of earthly life? It seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning...
...take the lesson of Newell's life to heart, so that perhaps one day it can be said of us as we now say of him, that the world is better because he has been in it and been a part...
...indeed true that "None knew him but to love him, nor named him but to praise." And what was the secret of this love and respect that he inspired in all who knew him? I think it is best answered by one word, character. Through his whole life his high character was stamped on whatever he did, whether at his studies or in athletics, or while working on the far away Berkshire farm, or engaged in his business occupation of the past two years Never did a man better exemplify Harvard's motto of "Veritas." He seemed to be true...
Marshall Newell was born in Clifton, N. J., April 2d, 1871. He spent much of his early life on his father's farm in Great Barrington, Mass...
While so prominent a figure in athletics, he by no means neglected the academic side of college life. He was interested in his courses, and always stood well in them. He had the respect and friendship of instructors as well as students. Socially, he was popular as few have been. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, Dickey, Hasty Pudding Club, and Signet. He was the unanimous choice of his class for second marshal on class day. Higher honors he might have had, but he took only such as were forced upon...