Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...waiters at Memorial Hall last Thursday organized a society, known as the Memorial Hall Waiters Benevolent Association, for self improvement and mutual benefit in time of need. Several students have volunteered to address the association...
...bureau is made up entirely of self-supporting students. It has received fair patronage this year from members of the Faculty but undergraduates have not used it as much as in former years...
...system is that we can study best those courses which interest us most. But we must not forget the difference between the undergraduate, who is apt to be indifferent to the good his studies may do him, and the mature man, who is actuated solely by a desire of self-improvement. To conclude, the free elective system assumes the evident fallacy that the student's aim is earnest and his judgment nature, and it fails to emphasize the development of character and the broadening of intellect...
...speaker for Princeton in rebuttal, pointed out that the negative had offered no alternative system of study. The Harvard system has proved successful, he said. It has not produced an undue number of specialists, and is the direct outgrowth of modern scientific advancement. By it are developed the responsibility, self reliance, and individually which characterize the college man who is fit to take that place in life for which opportunities in college mark...
...make the minor sports self supporting is practically the same as continuing the need of undergraduate subscriptions. The object of college athletics is to help along the physical development of the students. The minor sports certainly offer such an opportunity to a great number of men. The gross expenses for the cricket club, lacrosse team, hockey club, and fencing team, for 1901-1902 (I take this year as it is the only one for which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses...