Word: self-respect
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...colleges are valuable chiefly as an illustration of the purely professional point of view toward military activities. Last year in a special article for the CRIMSON, General Edwards sounded the call to arms oy insisting that no college man could "maintain his self-respect" if he failed actively to prepare for the "next war" and by denouncing as "soft, mushy propaganda" the sentiment which put the ideal of peace above any other. General Pershing seems of somewhat the same opinion but has been more guarded in proposing that a "daily routine of practical exercises . . . should be included in all colleges...
...rule of economic reason. Arbitration boards, wage-fixing commissions, cooperative movements will always be temporary expedients, and are now too often mere sops to stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...
...best rule of action of life to control youth is the maintenance of one's own self respect. I do not see how a young college man, if he will give the matter thought and granting that the next war should be one of universal service, can maintain his self-respect if he fails to prepare himself to best meet that emergency. Presumptively, because of the privilege he enjoys, he should aim to be an officer, a leader of men. If he be an officer he must prepare himself for the most serious responsibility in the world--the least possible...
...generously than any other graduate schools. This practice, says Dean Sperry, "has been criticized as the beginning of the pauperization of the ministry, and as at variance with the whole trend of the modern church, which is trying to set the ministry upon solid ground of economic independence and self-respect. It is further felt", he says, "that the more generous and indiscriminate the scholarship awards, the less resourceful and desirable the type of man who responds to such an appeal". By awarding fewer and larger scholarships, he says, the school proposes to make them "goals toward which...
Said The Christian Science Monitor: "It is not difficult to draw from both journalists and theatrical history illustrations of the fact that decency pays, not only in self-respect, but in cash...