Word: leader
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second of the William Belden Noble lectures, given last night by Bishop C. B. Brent, was on "The Power of the Single Motive." The speaker based his address on the necessity for a single dominating motive in the life of one who would be a successful leader...
...leader must be in perfect touch with the whole universe and must look at life largely. The only way of avoiding the confusion which multiplicity of interests brings is to have a single controlling interest which will unify diverging issues. This central motive will, consciously or unconsciously, determine the color or our activities and the direction of our purposes. No man can serve two interests, and if at any time a man seems to be under the control of two opposite motives it is always the case that those motives are warring with each other and sooner or later...
...address he said that the American university today is graduating leaders who in the coming generation must have the prominent places in politics, in commerce, in education. To this end the university must be not merely a place for thinkers and scholars, but for education that is not scholasticism, but the co-ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type...
...less a leader because he has few followers, for the true leader of men cares not for himself, but only for his cause and his followers. This is the metaphysic of leadership, simple in the extreme, the passion for the goal. True, that goal is not always reached, but there is motion toward it. Many a leader has gone through life with no recognition of his ambitions and efforts, only after death to have his plans utilized and his greatness appreciated. And what is this goal toward which nations, no less than individuals, are striving? We cannot say definitely what...
...given in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock, will be: December 4, "The Power of the Single Motive"; December 6, "The Power of the Human Will"; December 9, "The Power of the Blameless Life"; December 11, "The Power of Fellowship with the Divine"; December 13, "The Representative Leader...