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...institutions have been pleasingly friendly. Handicapped by poor facilities the Providence college has been unable to do itself full justice. The increased enthusiasm, financial support, and physical assistance brought by a representative stadium and all that it means should start the Bear on a new and even more glorious career, to be added to not inconsiderable laurels of the past and a memorable tradition of hard playing and good sportsmanship...
...difficult to determine fairly whether the Yale vote is but a sign of temporary mens iusana, or a result of an understandable desire to smash traditions, or in fact, as educators will fear, a last crushing blow delivered to free the glorious American sports forever from the age old incubus of scholastic fetters. If this latter is the real significance, the Yale Seniors are to be commended most highly for their unselfish, frankness. Other universities will doubtless try the same policy with hopes of comparable athletic results...
...hope, sir, that the result of this exhibition will be to impress vividly upon all the peoples of your empire the advice you have given to them on more than one occasion?that they should be fully awake to their responsibilities as heirs of so glorious an heritage and that they should be in nowise slothful stewards, but that they should work unitedly and energetically to develop resources of the empire for the benefit of the British race, for the benefit of those other races which have accepted our guardianship over their destinies and for the benefit of mankind generally...
...Breathing becoming difficult. Long live the Emperor. Nothing could be more glorious than sharing the fate of our ship. We shall live again in coming generations and will devote ourselves to the cause of our Emperor, and hope His Majesty will offer sympathy to officers and crew alike...
Then comes the War, and in that searing horror he at last sees Truth, flaming, glorious, for the instant, in the awakened consciousness of the world. Yet even there, coexistent with the glory, are all the baser human instincts rearing themselves: treachery, greed, lust for power...