Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...
...fine thing for a man to become oblivious to self in pursuing a higher ideal than egoism. It is a terrible thing for a man to become oblivious to self because the whole world appears as nothing stronger than a fantasy...
...charts of the range scores of the second battalion of the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which returned from Wakefield last Saturday, show a considerable improvement over those of the first battalion. Not only was the general average somewhat higher, but five experts were produced from these four companies. Their scores were as follows: J. Perrin '20, 222; C. T. Prindeville '18, 216; J. Clark '18, 214; T. Nelson '18, 213; F. W. Hatch '19, 210. Perrin's score of 222 is the highest yet obtained in the Regiment...
...this masque Mr. MacKaye has taken the Shakesperian character of "Caliban" in "The Tempest" as a motif, and through the dramatic action and interludes he symbolizes the struggles of mankind through history and dramatic art to higher ideals of civilization. Only out-of-doors could such an ambitious theme with its pictures and tableaux be presented...
...unique feature of the conference will be the variety of fields from which representatives will be drawn. Men in business, law, medicines, engineering, science, journalism, and public life will be present, and will state their views on the higher knowledge, which includes the classics as of incalculable value to a broad viewpoint. This, it will be shown, is particularly applicable at the present critical period in the life of the nation and of democracy...