Word: visioning
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...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...
...physical defects which could have been prevented. The draft merely accentuated this condition. It was evident enought that the American college had developed the brains of its students but had neglected their bodies. Then came the big cantonments, and with them the opportunity to show what men of vision could do to utilize athletics in the development of America's fighting machine...
These former students are now coming back to complete their education, but they will not tolerate the lack of vision with which so many of our colleges endeavor to crowd all their students into one little field for their recreation. They will still want intercollegiate competition, but they will also demand that the student spectators shall likewise be athletes. I think that some of the changes they will demand may be included in the following...