Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which in material resources, so necessary to a great university's welfare, and in attendance are no distant rivals of the New England universities built up through long years of toil and self-sacrifice...
...student is usually frank himself; our undergraduates are, in general, excellent follows to deal with: yet so much is done for then, so many opportunities are lavished on them, that the more thoughtless fail to see the relation of their rights to other people's, and, in the self-importance of early manhood, forget that the world is not for them alone. Students of this kind need delicate handling. They jealously demand to be treated as men, take advantage of the instructors who treat them so, and excuse themselves on the ground that, after all, they are only boys...
Continuing, Dean Briggs shows just why the recent vote of the Faculty in regard to posting names for dishonesty in written work was passed, and then concludes his remarks on this subject as follows: "My hope is that self-respect or fear will make the offence almost impossible; for whoever cheats will know that he cheats, and will cheat with his eyes open to the result of detection: and my ultimate hope is a higher right for Harvard College to maintain that she stands for truth...
...pushed up by some and pulled down by others, there would be no danger of tearing ordinary clothing, or arousing quick tempers. We think that the ill feeling that has at times been shown has arisen from the momentary impulse to prevent one's self being pulled down...
...these reasons self-interest as well as class loyalty should lead a large number of men to try for the Glee and Banjo Clubs at the coming trials and make them, like the Mandolin Club, organizations creditable to the class...