Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential to success that the location and surroundings of the university should offer no impediment to the convenience, health, and powers of self-maintenance of the students...
...same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect and ability to use his common sense. The game is an education itself for it gives a man "certain necessary qualities that do not come from much reading of books." "Active thinking, self-reliance, power to carry out what is attempted, and ability to decide at once...
...inadequate. When he asks what he shall give Christ for his good news, the answer is, "yourself." Christ is constantly pouring out upon us the riches of God, even when we are often to blind to see them, and all the return He wants is a man's best self. He does not wish, in this sacrifice what men are apt to suppose. He does not ask surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream...
...presence of something like sympathy in it. We need not be surprised at finding something like feeling in the Eternal Force. No one knows force who thinks of it simply as producing physical motion. Plants, animals and men show us other aspects of force. We must know life, self-movement, thought and feeling in order to know force as it is. But we must test our theory of divine sympathy by seeing whether the nature forces as moved by the Eternal Power give actual help to the desires of men. An examination of the help which individuals and nations find...