Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self-supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied. There are certain forms of menial service to which it is not well for a self-respecting man to become habituated, even if such a one can. Among them the waiting in Memorial Hall may safely be classed...
There are certain forms of menial service to which it is not well for a self respecting man to become habituated, even if such a one can. Among them the waiting in Memorial Hall may safely be classed...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied...
...beginning of the fourth year of its existence, however, the members of the Council feel that this first experimental stage should soon end; that the Magazine is fast reaching the point where, now that the large preliminary expenses are decreasing, it easily can and rightly ought to be self-supporting; where it should no longer expect either money or services as gifts; but where it should make its subscription price sufficiently large to enable it to meet all ordinary running expenses. These can be satisfactorily met by doubling the present subscription price, provided all present subscribers can be retained...
...most forcible. Religion must lose its true character if it is dragged into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish it abroad as ground for self-laudation, and there could be little other reason for trying to gather statistics of religious life among Harvard students...