Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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e- iftrhutt jsr -i eo ANCIENT GREECE and AMERICA It is a significant fact that the great age when Greece became the Hght of the world followed an age when Greece was as devoted to athletic contests as America is now. To win at one of the Olympic Games was regarded by them as the highest honor which a man could achieve. We are told that one city made a breach in its walls to readmit a returning victor. And we know that some of the poems of the mighty Pindar were written in honor of such contests and victories. It may well be that the Greeks carried athletics to an excess. Perhaps nature never does its best at anything without overflowing into some excesses. But we are warranted in believing that part of the reason why Greece then filled and still fills the world with light is because the Greek people developed the utmost physical perfection through strenuous play. President William Lowe Bryan April I, 1920