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...himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were men of the older generation in England who faced the war on Greek literature better than some of their fellow citizens faced it on the soundest economic education...
...attitude toward the whole scheme of college affairs. The victories of the past have no bearing on the future unless surrounded by the same influences and the victories of the past were not built on indifference. If every undergraduate would realize that athletics, properly taught, provide the soundest mental training for the problems of later life and simultaneously provide a healthy body to house an active, aggressive mind, perhaps more would engage in athletics. For those who don't participate there is the opportunity to develop intensive loyalty and enthusiasm, two factors vitally essential to success in any field...
...lesson of the Mexican officer's remark is a valuable one. There is hardly a greater virtue than obstinacy, if obstinacy is construed as refusal to recognize apparent defeat and turn it to personal advantage. The nations that today possess the soundest traditions of orderly government are the ones that have sacrificed most for it in the past. Their history is filled with the record of lost causes, which have in the end been victorious. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of the present Mexican revolution. Just now it seems likely that a new government may be established...
...been endorsed by some of the sincerest and most prominent men in the country. In adopting a policy of active opposition to the camps, the CRIMSON does so with the conviction that, in the broadest view of the question, such opposition will prove in the future to have the soundest foundations. The CRIMSON in this and succeeding editorials will attempt to justify fully this position by setting forth the reasoning on which it is based...
...large cosmopolitanism of race and feeling; in the high rewards we are prepared to pay for best examples of any kind of art. Another hopeful sign for the American national drama is the interest taken in it by the leading universities. Mr. Brander Matthew's books have been the soundest and sanest contributions to Anglo-American dramatic literature. In addition to his works there is the splendid and unique work, unique in regard to university teaching, by Professor Baker at this University, Professor Phelps at Yale, and Professor Clark at Chicago. The leavening and fruitful nature of this work...