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...essentially militaristic. About 400,000 men are authoritatively employed bearing arms in time of peace. This includes 200,000 soldiers and two men or more per thousand of population who are policemen, sheriffs, jailers, etc. Every time the government exercises its functions, it uses, actually or potentially, the total brute force of the people. It is only the above mentioned standing army of 400,000 "that prevents the constitution and laws from being 'mere scraps of paper...
...young man is to make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures...
...better institutions the etiquette of the game is scrupulously observed. In short, each of Dean Randall's desires for the better training of students is realized on the athletic field in so far as it there can be. The disciplinarian's ideal of slavery either to a brute as a boss (many of our athletic coaches cultivate brutishness), or to an ideal that they must win, is present in athletics...
...physical well-being of the people, of good government, of virtuous character and righteousness, of education and intelligence and of the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects, colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the antithisis of brute force and are essentially a protest against...
...Many of us are apt to attribute to what we call "the Harvard type" an attitude of more or less bored indifference to mere brute athletics, while feeling a smug assurance of our own enthusiastic virile support of our teams. And yet, year after year, we go to the great game and submit to being out-sung and out cheered by these disciples of boredom...