Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton Bureau of Self-Help, which corresponds to the University's employment office, now has an enrolment of 267 members, all of whom have been given opportunities or remunerative positions. Seventy-two of this number are seniors, 89 are juniors, 75 sophomores, and 31 freshmen...
...Nobel Prize, is so great as to over-shadow that of his other attainments. He possesses unusual ability as a musician, and also devotes much of his time to the management of a boys' school which he has established in India and is conducting on principles of self-government similar to those of the George Junior Republic. The views of such a many-sided personality are certainly worth listening to, even if they do not coincide with those of our Occidental civilization...
...views about the underlying causes of the war," said Professor Kuno Francke at a lecture in Emerson D. last evening under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, "only ignorance or hatred can deny that the German people engaged in this war, have presented a spectacle of consummate devotion and self-surrender in waging it. With its very outbreak, all petty class prejudices, all sectional jealousies, all sectarian rivalry, and all industrial antagonisms seem to have been swept away. In a supreme moment, the whole nation actually felt...
...Columbia Park Boys' Club has a nation-wide reputation among social service workers. It was originally one of many settlement house clubs in San Francisco, but by means of its entertainments, which are both clever and interesting, it has reached the stage where it is self-supporting. The are 45 boys, drawn from the less favored districts of San Francisco, enrolled in its membership, the majority of them being about 14 years old. The club has its own uniform which the members wear in their exhibitions so that there is no individual brilliancy but only the perfection of the whole...
...borne in mind that there are two points of view from which to look at this matter of the reception of a guest. So far we have considered only that of the receiver; but there is also that of the received. Each should aim to please the other by self-sacrifice and thoughtfulness. The guest, no less than the host, is under obligation at any friendly party. For several years past Yale has been a better host and a kindlier visitor than Harvard; we have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven and those...