Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class has been canvassed, and yet fifty-eight dollars have been collected. In our enthusiasm we wildly dream that two dollars more may be scraped together, and the magnificent total of sixty dollars reached. Ninety, we are proud of you. You are a noble example of heroic self-sacrifice and lavish generosity. You must have been saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass...
Prof. Harris of Yale has published a notable volume on the "Self Revelation...
...ball enthusiasm in all colleges at a high pitch. The Hamilton paper I have alluded to before, prints a lurid editorial on the subject: "Wake up, ballers! Make Hamilton shine this year. Make ball playing red hot! . . . . Our practice here don't amount to shucks! We are lazy and self-conceited; and we had better not practice at all than practice as we do. . . .One and all, wake...
...month, which is one-seventh of the college year. There is only one more point that I desire to speak of I learned long ago to refrain from mixing sneering personalities with arguments. A student who protests fairly and moderately against certain usage may be "childish" and 'absorbed in self" and have "poor brains," but you ought to refrain from dragging the poor fellow out and disclosing his deficiencies. I looked to you to keep these fralities a secret from the public, who might never have discovered them from my communication. You who have good brains and are manly...
...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...