Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leaves for New London tomorrow, the last opportunity to see the crew row on the Charles river will be offered this afternoon, between four and five o'clock. The crew as a whole, and especially the captain, deserve the warmest thanks of the college for their faithful work and self-sacrifice. Although the crew has been described as a faulty one, we have, nevertheless, great confidence in it and hopes of success. Whatever may be the result of the races we may rest satisfied that all that was possible for the captain and men to accomplish has been done...
...half-backs be furnished with foot balls and requested to devote a few hours a week during September, if not during the entire summer, to kicking and catching. It may not be agreeable to undergo any exertion during the summer months, but it is only by the self-sacrifice and hard work of individuals that we can hope to check the annual defeat we sustain at the hands of Yale...
Physical training in its broad sense means correct habits. It means temperance. It means morality. College sports today, as represented by the sentiment of undergraduates, mean manliness and fair play. The qualities of judgment, decision, coolness in the midst of excitement, and self-reliance, are developed. The value of discipline is learned by those who become members of teams, and all learn to care for their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure...
...very important that our colleges should be well governed, and to this end the conduct of the students should be in keeping with the spirit of the age. It should be assumed that the college professor is a man capable of self-government, and not a foolish old person requiring guardians and nurses. The time has gone by when a professor needed to be treated lid a school boy. It is true, that the professor, living a comparatively secluded life, is ignorant of many things-such, for instance, as the proper odds to lay on any given crew or ball...
...many of our colleges the professors are treated in an arrogant, dictatorial way that cannot be commended. It tends to destroy their self-respect and to render them detain. The students should understand that it is not their business to supervise the morals or manners of professors, except in the class-room. If the professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down...