Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians so ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...
...centuries since Lincoln College, Oxford, performed its classic paradox. Founded to combat Lollardry in 1427, it unwittingly fostered a far greater popular schism in the Church by conferring, in 1726, a fellowship upon a young deacon named John Wesley. To such good purpose did the young deacon put the freedom thus afforded him that Lincoln College was not so much honoring as honored when, on the bicentennial of his admission, it lately unveiled in its court a bust of John Wesley, founder of the largest* religious denomination that has grown up in the last 200 years-Methodism...
...remedy for over specialization must be found in a broadening and dramatizing of learning. One reason why football attracts so much more of the undergraduate's attention is that a football game is a vital, dramatic whole. One of the best possible ways to combat the over emphasis on athletics would be to departmentalize football, for instance. If we took up punting on a certain hour on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and forward passing on Tuesdays and Thursdays at another set time, interest in football would rapidly dwindle to insignificance...
...argued that this apathy is in itself a product of the attitude which pervades our entire educational system, that the student is rendered intellectually docile and unquestioning by that very authority which his audacity would combat. This is far from being a complete answer to the problem, however. It implies a very flattering estimate of the influence exerted by an educational system on the mental habits of its students. And no matter how great this might be, it must always be unimportant in comparison to the significance of the personal attitude involved. Until the student can stimulate in himself...
...Fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female." To what great organization of U. S. men does this apply...