In honor of Drake University having made the NCAA tournament, I plan on doing some comparisons between them and their first round opponent, Western Kentucky University because I'm pretty sure this hasn't gotten old yet.
School Motto
Winner: Drake
Sorry, but there's something quasi-problematic about this whole spirit/master thing. It's not just the valuing of spirit--that's fine--but it's the priviledging of mastery as opposed to, say, decency. If Western Kentucky wants to fill the hills with a bunch of little Ayn Rands, that's their business.
Plus, it's in English when everyone knows that any motto should be in a dead language. (I'm looking at you, Nebraska).
Veritas wins easily.
1 comment:
Veritas?!? That's Harvard's motto. I think Drake should lose simply from having stolen its.
Boo.
(Pitt's motto? Veritas virtus. Not much better.)
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