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Topic:  In the deed, the glory

Topic:  In the deed, the glory
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  Message Not Read  In the deed, the glory
   Posted: 11/16/2018 1:11:43 PM 
Every so often, I think it's a good idea to reflect on part of the Nebraska heritage that I think is now been transplanted, at least in part, to OHIO soil. This a brief poem of sorts written by a Nebraska philosophy professor by the name of Hartley Burr Alexander (1873-1939). He was an interesting fellow, and was once described by a New Yorker as a "Midwestern Weirdo." On campus in Lincoln Professor Alexander was revered as as a man of many talents -- poet, author, scholar, iconographer, and all around Renaissance guy.

The poem in question is blazoned on a wall in Memorial Stadium, it reads thus:

“Not the victory but the action;
Not the goal but the game;
In the deed the glory.”

I would like to have this same poem placed somewhere on Peden Stadium, though I suspect that would not and could not happen under the current AD.


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