Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURES ON ANCIENT LAW. III. "Self-help." Professor Vinogradoff. North Room, Austin Hall...
...Golden Pest," by his not too emphatic satire of the matinee idol. It was a piece of mock heroics all the funnier for being in restraint. The palm for genuine acting, however, must go to the player of a subordinate part. H. E. Widener '07 as Abadiah Butterworth," the self-made man, was the thing itself. He stayed in his part, and he never failed to make his points carry. As the sheriff in the burlesque he was even better, and his complete change of voice, method and manner, proved that his genuineness in the other role had been skill...
...utmost importance. There are two essentials for the effective public-speaker--information and earnestness. He must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because all truth is self-evident, and needs only to be stated clearly to be convincing, and the other because short and pithy statements are more apt to be remembered. The final test of the effective speaker, is that he must impress his subject upon the audience and not his own personality...
...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...spoke first of the government of Mt. Desert, Maine, in the eighties, which was almost entirely self-supporting, and its perfection, on account of the really local character of its interests. Some thirty years ago, a great change took place in American life. The population gradually drew into large units, whose interests were everywhere. With this, there was a further complication; namely, that the burden of taxation was badly distributed, as the wealthier classes lived in adjacent towns, leaving the poorer householders of the city to bear the major burden of its taxes. The movement for remedying this state...