Word: vision
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each applicant must undergo a thorough, physical examination for appointment, the standard for physical fitness being the general physical requirements for military service. The minimum standard of vision will be 20-70 in each eye, correctable to 20-40 by glasses. In juries and defects which will not interfere with the performance of proper duties by the candidate, will be noted, but not regarded as disqualifying. No candidate will be accepted whose weight falls below 115 pounds without special authority from the Adjutant General of the Army...
...oarsmen have done well. Faithful work with no vision of the Thames is rewarded today. To all boats from the "Go" to the last shriek of the diminutive coxswain the CRIMSON extends its best wishes with congratulations to the victors...
...only would such a body have considerably more effectiveness and weight in executing its projects than the two undergraduates who have been elected annually to the vice-presidency and secretaryship in the past, but it would also have at first hand a more diverse range of opinion and broader vision...
...secret of true greatness, as it is revealed to us in the lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which...
Supplmentary to vision is the requisite of valor or moral courage. The world is filled with men gifted with a divine power of vision, but who lack the valor that is necessary to put what they have seen to some use. What would Theodore Roosevelt have been worth without the moral stimulus which prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality...