Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...officers also form the executive committee. After the business meeting, an informal talk was held on "Emerson and Self-Reliance...
Harvard Religious Union. Regular Meeting. Election of Officers.- Discussion on Emerson and Self-reliance. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
...hall, which was erected as a memorial to a student who died during his college course, has been so far, and promises to be in the future, self-supporting. The plan by which the privileges are paid for is this: The annual fee is one dollar only. Tickets of the value of three cents are on sale at the office of the secretary and are sold in any quantity. None but members can purchase tickets. These are given up to the attendants in charge of the various departments whenever use is made of the latter. The aim is to have...
Until modern times, physical force and intimidation was the only known method of restraining those who prove unable to restrain themselves. Now, however, the purpose of punishmen is more justly to inculcate self-control, the rule of moral force. With this object inview, of calming stubbornness, and appealing to prisoners through hope rather than fear, the Elmira reformatory system has been introduced and bids fair to become a success, so far as may be expected of any remedy for the disease of crime. At Elmira every effort is made to find the weak points of each prisoner and to strengthen...
...stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated as a man and not as a schoolboy.- (d) The accompanying lack of enthusiasm...