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November-December 2025

Class Note 1955. To write these notes the end of August when they will not be read until November is an interesting task.

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September-October 2025

Here it is the end of June and it feels like the dog days of August. You’ll read this in September or October, when cooler days should be here and we’ll be talking football. But you never know about the weather.

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July-August 2025

It has been said that “April is the cruellest month” (T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”), and it has been, with disturbing events throughout the month. I’ll not do a list since that might take the entire column.

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May-June 2025

It is late February, and the sounds of hardballs thumping into gloves and the crack of the batted ball tell us spring training is underway. “Time begins on opening day,” Thomas Boswell once wrote. The season is here when you read these notes.

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March-April 2025

We write these notes at year end during the holiday season with so many thoughts of jingle bells and snow present.

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