Word: self-control
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Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...
...Lourie has been awarded the Poe Memorial Cup for 1920, which is given to the football player with the greatest loyalty to Princeton, the greatest courage, determination, and fairness in the game, and the greatest self-control and modesty. The cup was awarded last year to Mauire Trimble...
...have been amazed, not only at this, but at the courage, resiliency and recuperative power of these Armenians and at their resourcefulness. I have listened to story after story of the siege that is just over, telling of their pluck and ability and self-control. Their persistence and their religiousness, too, have impressed...
Crowded into ten weeks, the football player intensively develops accurate powers of observation, correct deductions, self-analysis, self-control, the ability to instantly execute, his mental conclusions, and many other factors which could not be developed at any such rate unless the factor of incentive, such as we find during the hours of competitive play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner...