Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three? The time is long past when they could claim athletic supremacy over other colleges. They are exceeded in numbers and wealth. Is the title one of conceit and vain-glory? If such it should cease. Fundamentally the Big Three represents an ideal; the belief in the power of education as a personal force in a man's life. The Big Three believes that college must give a man a sense of selfcontrol, an appreciation of beauty, a philosophy of life. Athletics represent but a small part of that ideal and football a lesser division of athletics. The Big Three...
Each week brings new examples of abuse of power by state governments in their relations with the universities supported by them. Laws stating which textbooks may be used, and which not, laws limiting teachers to definite economic, political or religious theories popularly current, and penalizing with dismissal any unorthodoxy or original thought in any one of these fields, have followed upon each other, with startling rapidity. Furthermore, state universities have often been drawn directly into the political field through the control of the Governor over the Board of Regents, or whatever the university governing body may be named. The most...
...body, that there will never again be a time when the stands are audibly antagonistic, when the teams become central elements in a turmoil of tea cup war. Such phenomena are intrinsic parts of all that the college of today and of the future must attempt with all its power to drive into permanent oblivion...
...deep into the spirit of man, they provided this. A great moral lesson might be taught in a Greek play, but it was purely secondary, and was borne home to the mind only after long and careful consideration of the action. The feature of the Attic drama was its power of lifting the human soul out of itself, and causing the mind in a contemplation of spiritualities mightier than itself, to lose sight of petty earthly troubles...
...work that we do is never repaid, except in giving us mental satisfaction. Progress in the individual life is the achievement of mental satisfaction. Without the knowledge that there is a divine power and without the inspiration that this knowledge gives us, we could not enjoy the work that we have in the world and be content...