Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible. The papers had the courage to make themselves responsible for their exhortations by printing them as editorials, and, indeed, only claim to represent the sentiment of their editorial boards, but the promulgators of this notice had the effrontery to sign it as issuing from "a committee of students," self-constituted, I suppose. Of course any person can constitute himself "a committee of students," and give his effusions this anonymous authority if he desires it; but we would like to have it thoroughly understood that such a committee does not represent the entire body of students in the sentiments...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...first time that Harvard, and indeed other colleges, as our correspondent says, have felt the aggression of Yale methods and practices - practices too long upheld by the unfortunate traditions of that college. Harvard, we are assured, will take no action which can cause her to lose her own self-respect, nor, we hope, the respect of other colleges. But a reform must be made, and it is now the plain duty of Harvard to be the first to move in the matter...
...second Forensic will be due Dec. 7. Subjects : 1. Is there a decline in real statesmanship in the United States? 2. Is Macaulay's judgment of Bacon just? 3. How far does self-consciousness hinder action? 4. Which function of literature is the more important at the present time, the critical or the creative...
...meeting in Boston the other day in the interests of Roanoke College, Virginia, President Eliot of Harvard spoke in its behalf, saying: "That he was sure all present felt deeply touched by the story of the devotion and self-denial of the noble men who are bravely struggling to build up Roanoke College, doing what is to them a sacred work. For some years past he had learned of this heroic and self-sacrificing endeavor and the more he knew of the work and its representatives the more he esteemed both, and such would be the case with...