Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...
...rest of the room will be decorabed with various team pictures. It is hoped that as men leave college they will give pictures and other decorations to the club house. The expense will be met by the increased initiation fees and monthly dues, the steward's department being self-supporting...
...believed that everything must be explained by its own nature or by a higher nature, and so that there must be some one higher order; this is his "universal order " eternal, infinite, self-determined, complete in itself. This is Spinoza's God. This order must have infinite ways of expression, hence Body and Mind. Whereever there is a body there is a thought, not necessarily produced or effective, but parallel; the human mind is a part of the divine intellect and is a thought thinking of the human body; we are in and of God. The wise...
...body which seems to leave the soul no chance; plenty of blind loyalty to old tradition; plenty of conventional standards of honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit and the open sympathy of democratic life seem often to be sought almost in vain. Plenty of these causes for hesitation and discouragement. Plenty of these signs of how much better the college might be than...
...could desire. Each set will be loaned for a year on deposit of $7.50, of which $2.50 will be given back at the end of the college year, provided that the furniture is returned in good condition, or that the lease is renewed. The scheme is intended to be self-supporting, and apparently has a very prosperous and useful future. Circulars are to be sent to all members of the incoming class, describing the plan, and stating the terms on which furniture will be loaned...