Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...average Harvard man are far from wonderful or even creditable. The men who spoke last evening had fairly good ideas, but most of them were unable to air them intelligently and forcibly. Lack of practice has doubtless much to do with this condition of things. The want of self-confidence exhibited by many of the speakers was largely due to this lack of practice. There is no reason why, with the opportunities at hand, speaking should not be more widely cultivated and why there should not be at Harvard a debating club in which the college would take a live...
President Dwight of Yale will contribute a series of papers on "Hints on Self-Education.' to be issued in the Youth's Companion...
...Youth's Companion will present this year a series of papers by college men. "Hints on Self-education" will be given by Professor James Bryce, M. P., Hon. Andrew D. White, Ex-president of Cornell; Presidents Timothy Dwight of Yale, E. H. Capen of Tufts, G. Stanley Hall of Clark, and F. L. Patton of Princeton. Students who have succeeded at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania will tell "How to Succeed at College...
...meeting of the Freshman Glee Club, held last night in the 'Varsity Glee Club Rooms, a permanent organization was effected and the club was placed on a self-operating basis. The following officers were elected: E. W. Ryerson, president; R. L. Whitman, vice-president; D. C. Greene, secretary; E. W. Forbes, treasurer. A competitive trial for the leadership was held, in which four men participated. The candidates for the position were L. R. Harvey, W. D. Brookings, H. Oppenheim, R. L. Whitman. The successful candidate will be announced later...
...hesitates about pursuing the lawful course he is not yet a good citizen free, just as a man is not honest who has to struggle with himself in order to tell the truth. Nor is anyone righteous until the best path is the only one for him; until his self-government is so complete and so exactly in accordance with the divine laws that in his obedience he is free, and he feels no restraint from restrictions that forbid what he hates...