Word: restrained
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...likely to misjudge his powers and drain his strength, as to the use of his time. We should give him work to fill his working time, not forgetting that he needs play-time. We should encourage individual activity for the class and the college, but at the same time restrain it so that the boy shall not become ineffective through multiciplicity of aims and lose sight of the purpose of his college course, which is sound education. Intellectual ambition, unselfish endeavor for the class, academic leisure--the author of this essay recognizes the place of all three but makes...
...appeal to the fairness or good manners of the disturbers will restrain their exhilarated spirits, we suggest that they retire to the seclusion of their rooms, and, calling to mind all the humorous incidents of the previous hour, shout, and stamp to their hearts' content...