Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invoked. The skill displayed in these games was much greater than at present. We are told that the ball was sometimes kept from striking the ground during the whole contention. The old writers lay special stress upon the fact that this game tended to increase the power of self-control; that it was thought to be excellent mental training. In June, 1763, the great Pontiac assembled the Chippewas and Sacs at Fort Mackinaw to have a game of baggatiway; of course every one attended, from the commandant to the lowest corporal, when, in the midst of the game, the Indians...
...subjects for the second Senior Forensic have been announced as follows : 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...
...fall short of the standard of the highest universities it must be because it is not deemed well that exactly similar education be given both sexes. I do not assert that the education of a girl should be inferior to that of a boy, but I think it self-evident that if the methods of studies of Harvard, Yale and our university were conceded to be what was required for the education of girls, they would be speedily adopted in the colleges for girls. It looks as if this clamor for co-education was a part of that absurdity which...
Translated from the Omnibus: Professor - "Meier, where is your thesis?" Meier - "I believe you have it there in the hand." Professor - "So? When have you it then written?" Meier - "Sunday morning at the breakfast - or, rather directly after. Professor - "I see here but no work. Will you your-self convince? The sheet is empty!" Meier - "Thunderweather then have I out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass in the milk-glass dipped...
...strive for, like the championship of the present league, and the hard feelings which would necessarily be engendered against us in those colleges against whom such a measure would be indirectly aimed. It may be urged that Harvard can afford to act independently, and according to the dictates of self-interest, in a matter of this kind. Undoubtedly she can, provided that it is clearly made out that there are substantial reasons for her action. But when there seems to be no just ground for the change beyond a slight inconvenience to the nine, it would be neither just...