Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thine own self be true" is the one sentiment which can be relied upon to strike an answering chord in every breast. The laudable idea of the poet may have been that we should not lie, thieve or otherwise misbehave at the urging of another; but in actual practice his exhortation is used to justify all manner of eccentricities and even crimes...
...woman who has knitted two pairs of socks and three helmets for soldiers feels overwhelming need for self-expression and goes out and buys hyacinth blue wool, out of which she fabricates a sweater to wear over her yellow silk. She does not so much express herself as the imp of restlessness that has her momentarily at his mercy...
...that their services were really needed. If these men pass their examinations for commission they are entitled to be used either for further training, or with troops. Such was the promise when they went into camp, and the Government owes it to them as well as to its own self-respect, to keep that promise. It would also be a military blunder to send half the graduates home, have them break training, and subject them to the humiliation of being dependents upon their families when many of them have hitherto be help in to support their families. Officers...
...should be borne in mind, before branding this body as "self-constituted" and "unauthorized", that the nominating committee of the Student Council of any college year, has no real power delegated to it other than the mechanical and impersonal task of printing the ballots, designating the polls, determining the watchers at the polls, and such like detail. As a body it has no further interest in the elections than seeing that sufficient men are nominated for office and the choices of each class are designated. In the event of insufficient petitions being field it may make such additional nominations...
...individual responsibility," he said in conclusion: "When Europe has given 5,000,000 men, can we say that we have gone the limit when we have given only to the edge of our incomes? This is above all the time for devotion and commitment of self to every true cause...