He Never Quit
StoryHistorical Account★★★★Some years ago a Midwestern university unveiled a tablet to one of its alumni who was an _ undistinguished man. In his undergraduate years he had entered into many college activities, but he never had been president of anything.
For four years he had gone out for football, but he had never played on the first team or been allowed in any _important game. His scholastic average was in the B’s. When World War I came, he served in a minor capacity in a medical unit, and one day met his death trying to help a wounded man under fire.
The French Government posthumously conferred on him the Croix de Guerre. So his alma mater unveiled a tablet in his honor, and on it the inscription is written: “He played four years on the scrubs—he never quit.”
The point
A Midwestern university honors an undistinguished alumnus who never quit, even sacrificing his life to help a wounded man under fire.