Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking all the time it wanted, ultimately to arrive at some conclusion, to suggest some remedy. What are the facts? Two resolutions have been passed that represent in their tenor student opinion, it is true, but only in a manner that any self-evident assertions would. We surely did not need a Conference Committee to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system of the university is unjust, and that it ought to be changed. What we wanted, what we expected was a recommendation to the faculty...
...remembered that the success of this attempt would give more men the enjoyment of sparring. Practice of this kind is, as all other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were...
...bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college may exceed the average in the smaller, the sum required by a self-respecting young man is not a great deal more in the one case than in the other...
...proper study of mankind is man." The writer throughout is bright, entertaining, and incisive. But the immoderate application of well-known aphorisms detracts seriously from the freshness and value of the thought. The central idea of the paper is "The present lies four-square, and the sides are self, civilization, raw material, and fellow...
They also recognize the priceless legacy to the youth under their charge and to themselves, of his example of a faithful, laborious, and self-denying life, steadfastly devoted to high ends, and accomplishing its great results with little aid, except from his own courage, patience and filial piety...