Word: ideale
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There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...
...fine thing for a man to become oblivious to self in pursuing a higher ideal than egoism. It is a terrible thing for a man to become oblivious to self because the whole world appears as nothing stronger than a fantasy...
Although he wrote but little, Mr. Wendell's published works show his ideals and plans and describe his activities with great vividness. Among these articles are "An Ideal in College Athletics," published in the Monthly of December, 1888, and "Boys' Clubs," which was later quoted by Jacob A. Riis...
...other nations, some greater and some less, have seen it for centuries, and united it is willing to give the very limit of its strength for empire. It is Persia risen again, without the wisdom of Persia, who had tolerance for subject peoples. It is revolutionary France, without the ideal vision of France. It is Rome...
Those of the peace party who have any foresight and any sort a synthetic mind, and there must be a great many such people among so large a party, will see that German conquest will put the acceptance of peace-party ideals back hundreds of years. If members of the peace party believe in clinging to an ideal, even to the extent of bringing down the scorn of the rest of the world, let them now take up and continue to take up arms in defense of that ideal, until the ruling force in Germany, the one great and powerful...