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William Arthur Ward: The American College Man
To be honest, one would have to stretch in order to discover many similarities between my life, and the life of the American college administrator William Arthur Ward; a man who was born in 1921 and throughout his life became a champion for education and academia. However, William Arthur Ward has given me a very important gift; he has bestowed upon me a mantra which I have applied successfully throughout my experiences in the classroom, the Football and Lacrosse fields; as well as in my everyday life I don't know if Mr. Ward, a man noted for many famous quotations, had anything particular in mind when he said, "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records" but I'd like to think that he wasn't focusing on any specific discipline,
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