Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prelate with a self-adjusting conscience...
...women should mix in political affairs, their elevating influence upon society through the home would be impaired.- (a) Their greatest strength lies in influencing their sons and husbands toward good.- (b) Not only would they lose much of this influence, but also their own self-respect.- (c) The testimony of Kansas points toward a lowering of woman's dignity through politics: Nation...
...Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease before nature, which he holds is only to serve man's purposes...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...financial outlook for the present year is not altogether satisfactory. Owing to the diminished receipts from the Football Association, the Athletic Association cannot look this year for any assistance from the Graduate Treasurer and must consequently become self-supporting. The support accorded the Association by the University has fallen off greatly within the past few years. Four years ago the amount realized from memberships and subscriptions was $2300.00. Last year this amount...