Word: self-control
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...result [of ceasing to attempt this] will be greater care in the selection of boys for college education. It will cease to be a matter of course to send boys to college whenever the father can afford it. Boys who have no strong love of study, and whose self-control is defective, will not be sent there...
Precisely at a quarter to seven the victim of Cupid, having been called according to his desire, rose and promptly dressed himself. He had sufficient self-control to shave himself without the slightest injury. It would seem as if he had devoted a longer time than usual to his toilet...
...Freshmen deserve great praise for their self-control in refraining from molesting the Sophomores at the tree, and it is to be hoped that room at the tree will always be found in future for the Freshman class...
...break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed out that they could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions. It might...
...spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess in matters of self-gratification...