Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...never before, we must revaluate the aims of college education. There is absolutely no justification for men to stay in college during this crisis, unless they are acquiring traits of leadership which will make their future value far outweigh their present worth...
Music will be provided by the Smith Halls Orchestra, under the leadership of Isadore Straus '21, which will play selections between the speeches and during the change of reels in the moving pictures. These will be in two parts, a comedy and a film starring Douglas Fairbanks...
...that the awful events which are in progress in the world have entered the hearts and minds of all men. It is a token that the world is aroused to the necessity of vast and concerted action. Perhaps it is also an indication of the universal yearning for strong leadership. In the wreck of the reputations of generals and statement, in the poverty of great and commanding names, the common people seek a supernatural leader. To their eyes the skies are not empty. Let us hope that there is something prophetic in their visions. In their very aspiration there...
...college man has gained pre-eminence or monopoly. But among business men--men engaged in manufacture, transportation, commerce, mining and agriculture--college training down to the present has been the exception rather than the rule. In spite of the increasing volume of graduates who have made business their vocation, leadership in business has not yet definitely passed to the educated...
...other generals, while Washington won, scarcely a single victory in seven years' campaigning. Although present at the Convention, he had played no decisive part in the formation of the Constitution. In spite of this, Washington well deserves the affectionate title bestowed on him. He possessed an extraordinary power of leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius. The people admired the philosophical mind of Franklin, the political idealism of Jefferson, the fiery eloquence of Patrick Henry. Many lesser men claimed their respect and attention. But, above all, the colonies in the darkest hour trusted...