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Lenin was the founder and sole head of the Bolshevist Party, and through it he rose to a dictatorship of the largest state in Europe. Throughout his career, he was entirely without personal ambition; he worked and lived and died for his ideal. However we may regard the ideal, we must recognize the astounding force, the tremendous influence of the man, guided by that ideal, over the world...
...question of the value of athletes--and most college trained men--to the national service. Athletics, in a sense, imply preparedness of a most vital sort--and conversely, preparedness requires athletics. When the athlete and the military man are combined, the result, by military standards in ideal. Summer training involves a sacrifice, and there is no reason why this should be concealed. But if patriotism means anything, if one feels that one owes a few weeks to fitting one's self for possible service, the sacrifice is certainly worth while...
...Under ideal weather conditions, Coach Fisher put his squad of football candidates, through a strenuous practice session in the Stadium yesterday afternoon, in which the men wore pads for the first time. Through additions during the last two days, the squad now numbers about ninety men, and the coaches hope to have a hundred out by the end of the week...
...other hand, one might be tempted to seek a new ideal. "In France," it is said, "the student is treated like a man, a free citizen; he lives in the Latin Quarter and enjoys complete independence." Undoubtedly, this is the perfect life. Whether it also leads to the perfect education is another matter. But there is no reason why America, which is so astonishingly composite in some respects, should set up either the German standard, as formerly, or the English standards, as is the tendency at present, for whole-hearted worship and emulation. Before tradition becomes absolutely hide bound...
...until 11.30 o'clock last Monday morning that the two shells touched water, when the eights left the Philadelphia Barge Club for an eight mile pull under ideal weather conditions. By 3.30 the crews were again on the water...