Word: self-control
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...first place, Freshmen, you are now free lances in a small world where there is nothing but your own ideals and will to bring you up. You have been dumped into a new system of education and must strain every power to stand with self-control the test of freedom. It takes a strong personality to weather the storms which are coming, but, once through unscathed, you have won the battle for success at Harvard. Cling to your ideals, though they seem but straws, and, if they are high ideals, you are safe...
...class of men from whom, in time of a national emergency, a large proportion of the commissioned officers may be drawn. Aside from this, the camps will give a healthy, out of door life for the summer vacation at low expense. The habits of discipline, obedience, command, self-control, order, and personal hygiene formed, the interest of the localities, the mutual benefit, received by intimately mixing with students of other colleges, and the opportunity for athletic work would all commend the plan...
...incoming Freshman a survey of the opportunities that the College and College life provide for the development of oneself through service to others, it points its moral clearly,--the necessity, if a man's college life is to be successful in the highest sense of that word, of self-control, careful thought, wise choice, and firm decision. In a single page, full of the rare spirit that for thirty years has been one of the greatest blessings of our College,--sweet and wise,--Dean Briggs opens the number with a talk about the Chapel, even better and more compelling than...
...Moeldner played the movement from the Schumann concerto with fluent and well-founded technique, an excellent interpretive style, although he tended at times to undue self-restraint. The orchestra accompanied alike with freedom and self-control in a manner that reflected highly upon its skill as well as that of its conductor...
...present generation has tremendous resources for good and evil, in its wealth and prosperity and in its advancement in knowledge. This generation needs to learn self-control, sense of law and order, and the value of a high ideal. Race prejudice must be wiped out, and the great field of psychological research must be directed. These are the calls of the present need for strong men in positions of responsibility...