Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lately in the Advocate Mr. C. H. Barrows declares that if Harvard is to lead among our colleges, her graduates must be leaders among men, must be reformers. "The call," he says, "is for those of high culture to be pronounced, generous, and self-sacrificing." Few can doubt his words; for Harvard's reputation is the reputation of her alumni. They must be worth something in the world to make her worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must...
...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
...their rooms papered last fall and grumbled because the authorities took such precautions against the hanging of papers containing arsenic may now feel considerable self-satisfaction as they read of the cases of poisoning in Felton and in several Cambridge dwellings. The necessity of extreme care has been strongly emphasized the past few months, and all who contemplate having their rooms newly papered may well take every precaution for their health. We are surprised that the proprietors of Felton should have neglected to submit papers, which were to be hung on walls in the building, to a most careful examination...
...peculiarly an elective institution. Study at a university is usually subsequent to study at colleges. It must be conceded, moreover, that the purpose of the university is not disciplinary. "It must be assumed," the writer of the article says, "that in the college the student has acquired self-control and self-determination, and in the university must be left free to elect whatever he chooses, and take the responsibility. If, now, the college be such only in name; if it be in reality a university; if its work be special and elective - election determined by students' judgment - certainly no such...
...Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new world are contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those...