Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time has at length arrived for our semi-annual editorial on the propriety of handing in blue books at these last few recitations of the first half-year. In a few weeks we shall all be clamoring for the return of these selfsame blue books from our instructors, -the self-same books, it is true, but also, how changed. It therefore seems but simple justice that we should heed the lesser clamor of our instructors and turn over to their keeping for a few days the books in which "what we do not know" will soon be written...
...prohibit the usual foot ball game on the polo ground on thanksgiving day of this year. The authorities of the college are of the opinion that manly sports should not be discouraged but rather encouraged, as fitted to promote the health of students. To give agility of frame and self control, and by no means injurious to morals...
...Princeton papers, the Princetonian and Nassau Literary Magazine, are crying for some plan of student self-government like that in vogue at Amherst and Bowdoin...
...those men who did not care enough for the athletic honor of their college to forego the little pleasure of which an early return would deprive them. The longer they stay at Yale, the better will they learn that athletic success is the result of individual hard work and self-denial...
Those who urge the dangerousness of the game should remember, however, that the benefits of foot ball are by no means merely physical. The game developes character, develops it much more than any other game we have. It makes a man of you, teaches you fearlessness, quick thinking, self-control (or should, when rightly played). subordination. The game may be perverted. and the character it develops be bad character, as we see in the case of one, at least, of the colleges; but that may be said of everything that affects character at all. And because anything that helps...