Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the college or university is considered as a place; for scholarly and scientific research and the training of specialists; for the equipment of a caste of "learned professions"; for the polishing off of an intellectual or social aristocracy or cult of "leaders" in the body social; for fitting oneself to cut a larger figure in terms of money-making, social standing, or what not; for the shelter and treatment of physical, mental and moral "lame ducks"-a kind of sanatorium for boys who are too much for busy or incompetent parents; for fun, and the enjoyment of an exceedingly...
...work at the South End House. He spoke of the Habit Clinic in which an expert breaks bad habits in children. An excellent opportunity to study the nationality question is offered by the 24 nationalities among whom the South End House works. "There is a personal satisfaction in giving oneself to Social Service...
Which is more important--what one thinks oneself, or what the public demands...
...eternal child lurking in every man of any sensitiveness--that understanding which drew from Carlyle the penetrating remark, "Laughter means sympathy". Such laughter Mr. Herbert awakens, such sympathy--sympathy with the human being so situated or so concerned as the various articles depict, a being at times strangely like oneself. This kind of humor is found in several of Mr. Herbert's contemporaries and compatriots; notably Hilaire Belloc and H. M. Bateman's drawings. But Mr. Herbert is alone in his remarkable simplicity of style and his difficult--almost apologetic--manner which as he sets forth the most absurd...
...when studying for an examination, to fill up with a mass of facts and quotations and useful bits from the lecture notes, neglecting entirely the formulation of personal judgment and criticism. Now facts are essential to show a general knowledge of a course; but the ability to think for oneself is an advantage which is coming to have more and more recognition. Professors--the great majority of them at least--are asking not what a man has "learned and conned by rote", but what he has actually got out of the courses...