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...band closed the initial set with a thunderous extended rendition of “Black Postcards,” and the first encore with a similarly blissful version of the perfectly selected “Time to Quit,” which would have been a fitting end to the show...
...fifth grade, I had to play a trumpet solo in front of the whole school, and completely choked. I quit band and renounced music. It’s funny—this solo that caused me to get so upset was a Charlie Chaplin piece called “Smile?...
Whereas Fitzpatrick has never looked back—running off staggering statistics in his four seasons since joining Tim Murphy’s Crimson squad from Arizona—Duda quit football after his freshman season and makes up a proud segment of the population who call themselves ex-footballers...
...winter and spring, or simply exhaustion, many a player on coach Tim Murphy’s squad finds that out at some point during his Harvard career. By my count, about half of the players in my class —the class of 2006—have now quit the football team. And while many of them and players in other classes joke about regrets, most of them still really love and follow the Crimson football team...
...interest of full disclosure one more time, I have to admit that I’m particularly thrilled with Freddie’s decision to quit because he’s become one of my best friends in the time since that day during his freshman spring. At the end of this summer when he could have been back at camp practicing with his fellow teammates in preparation for the possibility of an Ivy League Championship, instead Freddie and I were catching bluefish, going tubing, and attending Patriots games day after day. And if Freddie was still beholden to Murphy...