Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-03-21

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to person who has painful duty to
perform, and intends t. divide the mis-
cry literally with the other party to
the interview. The student had not
been seen to smile since his return
from Cambridge. On the evening in
question, he had pushed away his
looks, and was sitting with his head
in his hands Ills attitude suggested
the last few moments of an ill-spent
life
Harry regarded him for a minute in
silence. Then. with an evident strug-
gle to be calm, he said:
Larry, why didn't you tell me that
you wanted TO play ball2n
So the murder was out. Lawrence
rocked up at his brother with an ex-
preston which may have been quite
common in the dungeons of the inquisi-
ton
Don't. he groaned Why should
you make me more miserable than
amp When did You End this outo'
Within five minutes after the game
began"
why have son waited so long2 Why
didn't you descend upon me in your
wrath rs soon as got back to New
Iiaven27
Wait one minute for your answer.
have a question which should go be-
fore it. What are yon going to do
about t9n
Nothing It's all over. / have
failed"
That's your final word on the sub
jeet9"
1T is"
Then you have failed. Look here,
Larry, when discovered you in the
box at Cambridge was delighted. OF
course it was mistake foryou to start
in with such an important game But
| forgave you. Only born athlete can
know enough to begin at the bottom
and work up. A bookworm and a
dreamer like you would naturally want
to succeed by special dispensation of
Providence and not by his own ondeav-
ors. But the athlete understands work
lie knows that in order to be what he
wishes to be he must make himself
that thing. Look at the men who have
succeeded There's LanlIv Pierce. the
short distance runner ! Give you my
word that when he fir i the idea
that there was a Splinter coDcealed in
side of him somewhere. he couldn't run
fast enough to keep even with his own
shadow. lie didn't win a heat until his
junior year, but he kept at it, Now
he in the law school, and he's a ten
second man at "A hundred yards and
sure counter for Yale in the intercol-
legiate games.
There are men who try for the
teams every year there in college and
never make them Yet they're a help
TO the college and they know it. Their
examples spur on better men than
themselves, and their pluck and perse-
verance play and win many n game,
though their mortal parts are
sitting ON the benches, obscure
and unnoticed That's what it is to
be an athlete That's why ath-
letics benefit college. The spectacle
Of one Of these men who is forever
trying and falling short, and cheering
the fellow who gets the place he him
self was after, is worth coming 20 col
lege for. And any man who comes
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fonr years Of his life when good ex-
ample Is most beneficial q him.
And SO, Larry, ! wasn't so much
grieycd when the harvard boys took
yonr scalp ! waited IL SEQ what YOU
would 10. I've suffered more than YOU
have ia the last week When / saw
YOU give M without an fort. j put ON
sack cloth and ashc. and rended my
garments This the last cali. Larry
What ara yoa eoirg rs 9Th bont t,.sa
.Notbinr.s rsDlled Ias,r.pr.. p4eo.l.
ilv n begiu to ,,cresfvs tlat snarf Is
not satisfying. shall eanGne nvs.lf
In future Ia intellectual STRUGGLES
eln Short con yyill plap far .a,lrsolf
and not far the university You desire
a personal frinmpb and Won don't err,
what becomes of yonr oollege. And
vour name is Bang, We'll. wen. The
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