Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seaver said that one of the first qualifications of a teacher should be control. He could scarcely imagine a more unhappy man than one who chose teaching as his vocation without possessing this qualification. Each man must solve the problems for him self which arise in the profession. The men who is in doubt as to the choice of teaching for his vocation should get employment in some school and decide the question in the light of a few years' experience. Formerly it was the custom of college men to acquire experience by teaching the district schools, but these...
Professor James has an article on Hypnotism entitled "The Hidden Self" in the March Scribner...
...docent is a young man who has just won his doctorate, who has convinced the faculty of a German university that he is an independent searcher after truth. He is at once admitted to the same kind of teaching as the oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only self-imposed obligations. He receives no remuneration, and many of his duties are far from enviable; yet the proportion of private docenten to the total number of the university teaching force during the last fifty years has been about 25 per cent., and the last five years show an increase even...
While there are several new men trying earnestly for the university crew, there are a few old rowing men in college who have not as yet gone into training, either from lack of interest or too much self-confidence. This is not as it should be, particularly the present year. The withdrawal from the football league last fall, and the recent action of the Athletic committee, although they have not directly affected boating, have yet so fixed the eyes of the country upon Harvard athletics as indirectly to put an added responsibility upon crew men. We must win this year...
...University of California the studies by the professors are published at the expense of the institution. Surely a university the size of Harvard can afford to do as much for her instructors as is done by other like institutions. A publication if properly conducted could hardly fail to be self supporting while it would accomplish the two-fold purpose of bringing Harvard thought more prominently before the world, and thus of doing Harvard a justice...