Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...independent, self-reliant spirit which has grown up at Harvard, partly as a result of the liberal policy by which the government of the university has intrusted to the students the regulation of their own conduct, is less heard of than its rival, "Harvard indifference," but it exists for all that. When men are treated like men instead of like children they begin to feel and act like men. The two great students' organizations, the Harvard Dining Association and the Harvard Co-operative Society, are evidences that the Harvard undergraduate is pretty well able to take care of himself...
...Brunonian comes out valiantly in defence of its base-ball grounds, and insinuates that all items in reference to them proceed either from want of information or from a desire to account for defeat. We sympathize deeply with Brown in her misfortune, but must say in self-defence, that we know something personally about her grounds, and do not think that there is enough of them, or that what there is of them is good for much...
...with jealous New Yorkers as an advertisement for Life, but we must think it to be in questionable taste appearing in the columns of Life itself. By appealing to sectional jealousy and popular prejudice in endeavoring to avoid all imputation of amateurishness Life seems to show a guilty self-consciousness and extreme terror of detection...
...order, the governed bent on maintaining their natural liberty. Professors should not be responsible for the manners of students beyond the legitimate operation of their personal influence. Academic jurisdiction should have no criminal code, should inflict no penalty but that of expulsion, and that only in the way of self-defence against positively noxious and dangerous members...
...obey the requirements of the sentence inflicted upon him is tacitly to admit his guilt. He has shown his manhood by refusing to submit, preferring to sever his connection with the college. Confident in his own mind that he has committed no wrong, he will not sacrifice his self-respect by attempting to carry out the terms of a sentence which, indeed, his circumstances render almost impossible. I think it is but an act of simple justice to put on record the opinion of every man with whom I have spoken on the subject - that Mr. S. has suffered without...