Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses of this college show so distinctly as the courses in History the line which study at the university is coming to assume. The American youth is essentially a self-respecting animal, and feels himself possessed not only of the inherited talents of his grandfather, but also of the newly discovered wisdom of the present. Twenty-five or fifty years ago when History or Political Economy were but accessories to an intellectual development which owed nothing to them, the average college professor and the newly packeted, stamped, and delivered A. B. felt a high-born disdain for a study like...
...sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers and clothworkers - the Harvard trades - on the roll of its students today. May no restrictive policy or spirit ever separate the university which bears John Harvard's name from that laborious, frugal, self-respecting part of the community to which he and his belonged...
...Bloody Monday" of our day is, after all, a harmless affair enough, and but for a lamentable lack of self-control on the part of some of the participants in its rites, would hardly call for comment either condemnatory or otherwise...
...indulging in a dispute with a player on the opposing team. This is a practice contrary to all Harvard traditions. It must not occur again. Next we feel compelled to notice the conduct of certain members of the visiting team. With utter disregard of all the rules of self-restraint which should govern a college ball player, these players badgered the umpire with such persistency that at last it became almost unbearable. For the sake of the reputation of college athletics, we hope that a repetition of this offence may be avoided hereafter...
...Baccalaureate sermon to the senior class yesterday afternoon before an audience which comfortably filled Appleton, and which included it its numbers about a hundred seniors. The text was from Nehemiah, 7. "Then I consulted with myself," and the sermon, as the text would suggest, was upon the importance of self-reliance, especially upon college men just starting in life. The singing consisted of a quartette by Baldwin, O. S. Howard, Carroll, and W. W. Winslow; a duet by Baldwin and Carroll, and the baccalaureate hymn, the words of which were written by W. R. Roundy...