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Title: The Creighton Chronicle
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Creighton University
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Publisher: Creighton University
Contributing Library: Creighton University Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Creighton University Archives

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hat in thelong run the influence of the former institutions will bealmost imperceptible, and therefore contribute less to thegeneral uplift than if it had been exerted in the directionof a less marked and more gradual advance, based, in thefirst instance, upon a strict enforcement of the existing-landard throughout the territory within the scope of itsinfluence. On the whole, the distinct tendency of professional edu-cation is upward, and the young man who aspires to cast hislot with those whose self-imposed task is the alleviation of11uman suffering, the prolonging of human life, and theworking out of justice as the only stable basis for a great-laic must be willing to bring to his task, not only highideals, hut a prodigious capacity for painstaking work,mental gifts of no moan degree, and an abundant supplyof that patience which will count no reasonable wait too longif it hold out even a faint promise of that larger successwhich is the crowning glory of modern professional activity.
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C°u C </; — 1/1 THE STATUS OF ATHLETICS IN ACOLLEGE COURSE. *Terence H. Devlin, S. J. MEN of very ancient time appear to have had theproper judgment of athletics. Taking up a volumeof Plato, we read the description of a young athletecoming from the athletic field, taking his seat beside So-crates and talking with him about the perfect harmony ofthe powers of the mind and body. That is the ideal. And it is well always to have anideal before us, even though we do not reach it. For, asthe poet Spencer says somewhere, He who aims at the sunwill anyway shoot higher than he who aims at the bush. There is no doubt but that athletics in our collegesduring the last thirty years have made great strides. Butone wonders at times what can be their ideal. There is evera hue and cry about the athletic furor that has swept overthe country. College presidents and college professors,newspapers, periodicals, men in various walks of life fromthe pulpit down to the humane soci

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