Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists. It is unnatural to suppose that evolution to a bigher type can take place for many years to come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially...
...Work" is weird in the extreme. The series "As Others See Us" is continued by a sketch of Harvard as seen by a recent writer. The editorial deals with the proposed change in the Class Day exercises and claims to solve the problems presented, in three simple and self-evident plans. Aside from the pictures and the editorial the number contains nothing worthy of special note unless the short conversation, "Lispings of Little Lew," has claims because of its simplicity...
...Undergraduate University Club Committee after careful consideration of practical methods of running a University Club have felt very much encouraged. From the managers of the Pennsylvania University Club we have found that Houston Hall, their club, where the annual dues of the members are only $2.00, has been self-supporting...
...could serve his country best by waiting and preparing for the possibility of a greater need, or he might discover that certain home duties and obligations did not justify the gratification of his desire to enter the service. The truest patriotism is after all that which lays aside self-gratification in any form and seeks intelligently the path of greatest usefulness...
...exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt for him. An undergraduate seldom has a harder thing to do. Resignation before success, setting aside the chance so cagerly looked forward to, of making one more effort, is bitter...