Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result [of ceasing to attempt this] will be greater care in the selection of boys for college education. It will cease to be a matter of course to send boys to college whenever the father can afford it. Boys who have no strong love of study, and whose self-control is defective, will not be sent there...
...Cornell's message was sent to the senate yesterday, in which he says that the State finances are in a satisfactory condition, the attendance on public schools has fallen off 10,000, and the prisons have been for the first time self-sustaining...
...Some self-respect...
...Some self-respect...
...dark-brown hair there are some terrific uprisings of combativeness. That nose, too, just the least bit on the ascendency, bespeaks a fond relish for logomachy; it starts up just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty!" And my poetic heart burst forth into spontaneous verse, and sang low and softly to itself...