Word: disciplinarians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures of our educational system. "Colleges...
Dean Randall then passes to condemnation of the too-prominent position which athletics hold in our colleges, and counsels that they should be speedily reduced from their high estate. As a disciplinarian he could have made more effective attack upon athletics by praising them. Don't they teach our students punctuality? No man is ever twice late in reporting for football practice. Don't they teach thoroughness? No athlete who neglects the work required of him can win the success which he covets. Hence few neglect it. On the athletic field students are given complete and thorough examination...
...being "balked." By flatly recognizing that athletics are run on a system often, superior to the discipline of the college, by studying their technic, and applying it to their own methods, our faculties could more easily oust athletics from their present absurd position of primary importance. Admit the disciplinarian's point of view, and you admit that young men can only progress under very hard taskmasters or as slaves on the athletic field to a physical, in the classroom to a mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students...
...their popularity or personal playing ability. Yale has looked almost wholly at football fibre and leadership. Yale is right, in my opinion. The third factor is the head coach; the man who is the brain and hand of the captain; the teacher, drill-master, critic, field-manager, guide, philosopher, disciplinarian, oxar, and drudge all in one. Assisting him (at both Harvard and Yale) is a corps of coaches, who work under specific instructions as to method and policy...