Word: self-respect
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...arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...
...desire that none should enrol themselves but those who seriously wished to undertake a diligent study of the subject prescribed. It is not a pleasing admission to make but one whose truth will probably not be denied that if this request had been treated with the consideration which mere self-respect would have prompted, the course would not now be too large to be accommodated in the museum. Such an ungainly number as now exists has many attendant disadvantages. Much time is always taken for the assembling of students at each lecture hour. And, which is a still more serious...
...universities lapsed. Obviously they could only be restored by the party that broke them off. Here comes the whole question at issue. Which college really took the initiative, the one that made a demand which public opinion has adjudged it impossible to comply with without loss of self-respect, or the one that merely states its inability to accede to this demand? "Call black, white," says Yale, "or we shall not play." "We cannot," says Harvard. Whose fault is it that there is no game this year...
...decisive action was delayed until Harvard broached the subject of a next year's game. And then came the letter, which, although it was likely to take away one prominent feature from our coming football season, was inevitable in some such form, if we were to maintain our self-respect. We repeat, our stand has not been hastily taken, nor is it representative only of the opinion of a few thoughtless undergraduates - it represents the mature consideration of many, old and young, who have the best interests of the university at heart...
...success of the Junior Class dinner on Thursday night was far beyond the expectation of the most sanguine. It demonstrated clearly that Ninety-four has an enthusiasm and self-respect which can be held up as a worthy example to others, and as something in which each member of the class may take no little pride. During those three hours or so in the Tremont House, the Juniors seemed to combine as one to show a lively interest, not only in the class, but in old Harvard itself. It was the first occasion on which they...