Word: self-control
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Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...
...richly endowed university do not need to earn their salaries by intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into excess...
...tendency of our time is toward an increase of nervous irritability, so far as there is disclosed a want of self-control, a lack of poise and mastery, the sacrifice of the more permanent interests and satisfactions to others that are transient and corrupting, we find not only cause for regret but the need of bringing Up reinforcements through the consideration of what is best...
Throughout the trying ceremonies the President and Mrs. Coolidge preserved great self-control. Only at the grave, she wept a little, softly. Several members of the Cabinet-Mr. Hughes, Mr. Weeks, Mr. New-appeared deeply moved. C. Bascom Slemp wept. After the interment, the Coolidges retired to the Coolidge home. Colonel Coolidge was persuaded to accompany the President back to Washington. Mr. Coolidge called his son John to the doorway and marked his height upon the doorframe with the legend "J.C. 1924." On the same frame were other marks for both "J.C." and "C.C." with various years. To these...
...surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century...