Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, if we did not feel that it would be too great an indignity to put upon that exalted class of beings to so much as suggest that janitors should be held obedient to a summons of that sort. Life at Harvard, moreover, is but a Spartan exercise in self-denying virtues, and such effeminacies should not be tolerated...
...thank it for speaking so plainly and boldly on this important question. "To compel men to affect a semblance of religion which has no correspondence in their hearts, is an outrage on the men concerned and on all true religion," is a statement, the truth of which, is self-evident, and the sentiment of which, we believe, is that of every undergraduate of Harvard whatever his creed. It is an "outrage," and should be called by no milder name, that these blue-laws are in force at the foremost university of America. All this nobody denies; and yet slow year...
...correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale, and how readily the taunt of effeminacy will come to the lips of the self-sufficient News; but, nevertheless, we believe our opinion is sound and reasonable, and is not sufficiently refuted by simple derision...
...does the student who considers a suite of luxuriously furnished rooms a necessity astonish the world by a brilliant record. What is the effect on the really and truly poor young man? It is no romance, but a stern reality, that requires a vast deal of moral courage and self-respect to enable him to hold on to his poverty and go through. Ten chances to one he will, if he does go through, come out ahead of the extravagant fellow. But he does not know it, and it is not the less hard for him to grapple with...
...Humphreys, writing in the Commonwealth, says: "The publicity and excitement of engaging in matches all over the country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma...