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What the enduring meaning this development will have for either Harvard or Yale cannot be foretold today. What remains, supremely here and now, is the game. The holy of holies, which is Athens and Sparta, Rome and Carthage, and David and Golish all rolled into one, has been resumed. May it never again be interrupted...
...TELL SPARTA-A. C. Sedgwick -Houghton Mifflin...
...Sparta...
These fine, clean-living young athletes are rather to be compared with the noble Greek runner, Pheidippides, who in 490 B.C. ran the 134 miles from Athens to Sparta in 48 hours to seek Spartan help against the Persians. Thomas E. Bowman...
...Sparta, not Athens, is our model," proclaimed Little John, but he took political cues from Berlin and Rome. He ruthlessly abrogated all civil liberties and constitutional guarantees, created a secret police and Nazified youth organization, filled prisons and concentration camps with political opponents, drove hundreds into exile, purged others with liberal doses of castor oil. Public performance of classical dramas extolling freedom was prohibited and Pericles' funeral oration was banned in schools. He spent the Kingdom's money to build an Army on the Prussian model and to maintain a police force large enough to inspire love...