Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system of having a minority of Harvard seniors choose for the majority when no such power has been delegated by the majority is obviously wrong in principle, and the managers in doing the work of self-appointed slate makers are often guilty of conduct unbecoming students of Harvard or any honest men. For the past two years, to the writer's personal knowledge, officers have been chosen only nominally by the whole class, actually by a small but well disciplined minority. With a very slight reform not only the marshalships-which as a rule the managers wisely yield...
...Fenn of Chicago, conducted the service in Appleton Chapel last evening. The subject of his sermon was the "Religion of Self Respect...
...proper amount of self respect he said is one of the most important of qualities; humility, instead of being the cause of self respect, is really only its natural consequence...
France, said Professor Wendell, had been called the Greece of Modern Europe, and in a certain sense she is rightly called so. By the self-concentration so characteristic of the Greeks she has given us a style beyond criticism; for the French by this self-centred interest developed a rigid self-criticism, which was the parent of an excellent style. Unlike English, we find in French literature no flashes of genius; but on the other hand we do find that consistent mediocrity which the English so strikingly lacks...
...popular idol. (Bryce p. 69.) (2.) Frequent change of President is essential to a republican government. (a.) By change alone, is the interest and responsibility of the people in the government maintained. (b.) Continued re-election of the same man is the beginning of the resignation of self government...