Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sympathy. If you wish to be loved, you must have some one to love you; but here they all wish to be loved and have no time for loving, and consequently they are not so comfortable with one another as others who are sometimes, perhaps infrequently, willing to shove "self" into the background. My dear fellow, if you want to make friends, and make them rapidly, pursue the acquaintances you make this evening. Let them talk to you, sympathize with them, love them, or try to, and you will become the most popular man in the room. Ask the young...
Foreign. A recent circular by Mr. Clifford Lloyd in regard to the duty of self-protection in Ireland was the cause of unusual warmth of expression in the House of Commons yesterday. Mr. Sexton insisted on Mr. Forster causing its withdrawal. - More serious anti-Jewish riots have occurred in Russia with loss of life and of much property. - In Russia an imperial order has been issued prohibiting military men from publicly delivering political speeches...
...fiery energy of this eloquence is thrilling indeed; its terrible invective would be again, we think, suggestive of insanity, were it not that the admirable lucidity, the severe self-restraint of its climax forbids any such idea...
...depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
...will be asked more and more as the intercourse between student and instructor becomes more and more natural." The main policy of all her instruction is "to teach men to go, instead of being led." This is the key-note of her whole system - to give the power of self-directed and watchful thought; - the trained habit of mind which enables a man to think continuously and accurately. This is what "Harvard's degree will mean." The system of second-year and final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure...