Word: life
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...November 8 to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Virginia, and to address various civic organizations in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Virginia. On the evening of November 8 he will speak in Philadelphia before a meeting of the Contemporary Club on "Adverse Tendencies in University Life." Going to Charlottesville, Virginia, he will deliver at the University of Virginia a series of three lectures on successive days, beginning November 10. The general subject of his lectures will be "The Struggle between Collectivism and Individualism in a Democracy." This will be considered in separate lectures from the standpoints...
...team, even with the absence of Captain Fish, who went with Coach Daly to Cadet Byrne's funeral, showed considerable life, the players following the ball and starting very fast. The signal drill was quite long, as a number of the substitutes were sent in to replace the regulars, who were not given much work. Hooper played in McKay's place, while Fisher was shifted from guard to right tackle, Perkins taking his place at right guard. Long, Corbett, and Dunlap, who have been on the injured list, were all in practice, each showing that his condition was fast improving...
...development of the mental capacity and the character of the cadet, who is put through a rigorous course of instruction and physical training, and who, at all hours of the day and night, is under the immediate supervision of a commissioned officer. He leads the strenuous and the simple life. The Academy believes that no man can command others until he has himself learned the strictest kind of discipline...
Graduates of West Point played a great part in the quick termination of the Mexican War. A great number of the officers of the Civil War also were graduates. But war has not been their only field, for they have been prominent in educational, political and civil life. Graduates of this institution have done great service to the whole country and have had large influence in other countries. West Point commands the respect and confidence of the people...
...which the elective system has had little influence. In a little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline and the proper discharge of responsibility, that will be described tonight...