Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore year arrives, and one eventful night Y, the butterfly, is informed that he has been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from constraint. We can have all courses of study desired, and the thelogies are welcome...
...tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward the west is something good to see, and is typical of the college life to-day.- Henry C. Badger, in Magazine of American History for December...
...well for '91 and Lockwood and McLeod made good rushes for '90, and Faulkner and Leavitt tackled well. The freshmen received the lion's share of applause, for at the close of the game they not only were cheered by the victors but also cheered for themselves in a self-satisfied manner. Slocum, '90, refereed the game in a very satisfactory manner...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Allow me to correct an unfortunate typographical error that appeared in my communication printed in Saturday's CRIMSON. I remarked that "no one admires more than myself the quality of self-containedness-if I may use the term-that is fostered here." The printer made me guilty of admiring "self-conceitedness." It seems hardly necessary to emphasize the distinction between the two words. By the substitution however, of "self-conceitedness" for "self-containedness" the sense of my remarks was entirely distorted, hence my trespassing upon your space a second time...