His colleagues can better appreciate the loss to scholarship, but to the University community the death of Arthur Darby Nock is a family loss. One of the last members of a vigorous and humane tradition, he never used high learning to shut out the rest of the world. His many friends in all of Harvard mourn his passing, and must resign themselves to life in a place made suddenly smaller by his absence.
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The Myth of the 'Jock'
