Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsibility rests on the man and depends on his character; the university is helpless against his will. He can partake of, the various college activities, including courses, and by coordinating them, develop himself into an intellectual unity with true depth of character. Or he can sit back and worship "the American god of mediocrity" without thinking or acting for himself or by himself. The most unfortunate part is that when he graduates after four years of the second sort, and he is almost sure to, he will be a "typical college...
...these fellows in the coaches shoes or the quarterback's place and ask them to select the play in advance, they are immediately helpless. Nine years of continuous wrestling with these problems ought to have given Fred Moore a fair amount of good judgment and with his twenty-five years of experience in handling crowds for these games, I think we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans. If the CRIMSON, in its present wisdom, knows so well how this thing can be done so easily in advance, let them call...
Long ago, with increasing knowledge of the causes of such expressions of Nature as thunder or 'lightening, the human race lost the superstitious fear of these phenomena. But the earthquake still remains to fill men's hearts everywhere with helpless dread. The earth quivors--and suddenly the importance of all politics, wars, human ambition, dwindles to nothing...
...responsibilities which that implies. The same thing is demanded of the Junior and Sophomore Officers in the University. Some authority must be vested somewhere. A class without officers of some kind is like the fraternal order mentioned above, without the Great Incohee and the rest. It is as helpless as a hen without a head...
...their business was never more in evidence than today. As Colonel Roosevelt once put it, "to be effective in politics a man must make it his profession. An amateur politician is like an expert fencer trying to use a forty-five against a two-gun man. He is helpless because it is not in his line...