Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were permanently to increase our liability to these two kinds of danger. But I cannot admit the possibility of this latter alternative. I feel, as do my colleagues, that the sense of responsibility comes with freedom, and that a Harvard student can feel no greater challenge to his self control and control of others than when he realizes that the repute and safety of the college yard are committed entirely to his hands...
...should like to add one word on my individual account. What I personally wish we might see growing up here is a complete system of self-government by the students,-the faculty only regulating studies, and having nothing to do with conduct except in altogether unusual emergencies. If there could be but one crime, "behavior disgraceful to the college," and one punishment, expulsion, that would, it seems to me, be the ideal state of things. But it is obvious that such a consummation will have to be reached, if it ever is reached, step by step; and between...
...locked the doors of his own being as to shut out all possible influence around him, must feel himself benefitted and elevated. Those benefits resulting directly from study or intellectual work of any sort are not here referred to. Their influences are more on the mind than on the self and the character...
...believed by some that it is poor policy to cram on the day preceding an examination, and after two or three days' work the last 24 hours should be passed without any time being given to the subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There is always something that has been forgotten to be looked up, and one last look is apt to suggest another. Tutoring is also extensively resorted to, and the students who are willing, for a consideration, to give their time to aiding their backward...
...large audience greeted the Shakspere Club last evening at its second presentation of Julius Cxsar. The play passed off more smoothly and the actors were much more at home in their parts than on Monday evening. Indeed, the self-possession of all was one of the most striking merits of the performance. Perhaps the most noticeable fault was the indistinct enunciation of some of the characters who, in their endeavors to disguise their natural voices, lost distinctness at times in their delivery. The acting was unconstrained and showed a certain ease and naturalness not often found among amateur performers...