Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attraction offered by municipal research is due to the fact that it seems to promise a realization of the great American dream that usually grows dimmer and dimmer after college walls are left behind, viz: "Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students...
...farm. All of the 100 students in the school do manual work for five hours each day, the boys in the blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, or on the farm; the girls in the laundry, kitchen, or dairy. Last year the work of the students made the institute almost self-supporting. Like the George Junior Republic, after which it is modelled, it is a self-governing community, and only twice in its history has the faculty been obliged to decide in cases of discipline...
...political bureau of the Paris Temps, will begin on Wednesday, February 5. The subject will be "La France et les Alliances." All men interested in French may obtain tickets from W. G. Wendell, Claverly 2. Applications should be made in writing, and the applicant should enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
Applications will be received at the office of the Athletic Association until 5 P. M. on Thursday, January 23. All applications must be accompanied by bills, money-orders or checks made payable to the Harvard Athletic Association, and a stamped self-addressed envelope. Seats on the floor and the three front rows of the balcony will be $1 each; other balcony seats will be 75 cents. It should be stated whether balcony or floor seats are preferred...
...confess that our ideal is a committee which should have some authority for self-perpetuation. Until we secure one man who will direct the football policy indefinitely we shall be in the position of the country of fortnightly revolutions which is assailed by an established power. The committee with possibilities of permanence seems, however, to approximate the one man idea more nearly than an annual appointment by the captain...