Word: self-control
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Culver Academy's reiterated aim is one that many an older school regards as supererogatory: to train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand...
...they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant. both nerve-frazzled beyond self-control, had gone at each other with pistol and submachine gun. The lieutenant was killed...
...Vagabond has exerted his utmost efforts of self-control. He has striven to raise himself to the mental plane where he can appreciate the offerings of the lecture platform. He has been struggling for the last twenty-four hours to maintain that famed disinterestedness towards things worldly. Has he succeeded? No, most emphatically, no!--And what's more, he knows perfectly well that there are many more like him around Harvard Square. For their benefit he can suggest at least three ways of utilizing a part of a fortunately prolonged week...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
Correspondents of long experience cabled that never before had they seen the present Supreme Pontiff show such intense emotion, or such iron self-control, as during the service. He appeared without many of the customary trappings of the Papacy, wore neither the triple tiara, nor the dazzling white Pontifical garb, but instead a simple cape and stole of scarlet...