Word: self
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are numerous other ways in which the Nation exerts a bad influence. . . . . It is pessimistic, and accustoms us to an arrogant and self-sufficient style of thought; and we fall into the same habit from reading its columns...
...question will partake of the nature of the desecration of a dead issue. Our many exchanges, who could scarcely be expected to take a very lively interest in so merely local a question, we would anticipate in the criticism of here affording further evidence of "Harvard's egotism and self-conceited superiority," and would say to them that such introspection as this discussion implies has a value for our College far beyond the mere results of the discussion itself...
...precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard student is popularly supposed to be a handsome, well-dressed, and particularly self-indulgent Fakir. Like Lady Teazle, I admit all the rest, but beg leave most emphatically to deny the Fakir; and would earnestly question whether this indifference be not the result of our now superficial ideas and lack of special application. It is also true that, as we have some acquaintance...
...they have undertaken. Anything which retards their physical improvement is not only harm done to themselves, but it is also an injury to the interests of the College, which depends upon their efforts for success. The sacrifices which they are obliged to make are never unrewarded. In recompense for self-denial in a few things, they obtain the respect of their fellow-students, and the honor of representing them...
...each essay to its author, so that no one is without help in discovering- and correcting his faults. Again, men who can do more work are contributors to the College papers, and, though more rarely, to other magazines or papers; and, while such writers must rely entirely on self-training, they are obliged to improve as much as they can by the necessity of reaching a certain standard of excellence. Other good writers are encouraged by the Faculty to substitute for their forensics theses on subjects that interest them more and require more originality and skill in discussion...