Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encouraged. The instructors should be chosen for their power to teach, and not entirely for what they may know. Both professors and tutors should be paid much higher salaries, and the larger courses provided with additional instructors. Finally the alumnus demands, what seems most significant in view of the self-righteousness of present Yale undergraduate opinion, namely, that compulsory attendance at prayers shall be abolished, together with all ranking that depends on marks...
...then imagine that all young men here follow the course of its hero. Others will read the life of some famous graduate, and from this will be led to believe that all students, in their thirst for knowledge, overwork themselves, and pass through such a course of discipline and self denial...
...harboring an ambition to sit at the round board. The public schools may claim as their own 14 of the senators, while 13 received the finishing touches in academies. Harvard University, including the Law School, graduated 4; Amherst 2; Tufts: Williams, 1; and other colleges 2. Senator Howard was self educated. Hon. William Trowbridge Forbes of Westboro was once an instructor in Mathematics in Robert College, Constantinople. Of the representatives, 165 got all their schooling in the public schools, 39 are from academies and 36 from colleges and universities, Harvard having 10; Boston University (law school), 10; Amherst 2; Dartmouth...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...
...ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years of their college course. Then follows, in the majority of cases, a wholesome belief in one's abilities. There are some, however, who never recover from the first rude awakening from their dreams of their brilliant possibilities. Because...