Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...self-supporting student at Harvard, the item of board is the greatest problem that he has to cope with. It is essential that he shall have enough wholesome food to nourish him properly for the mental and physical labor that he must perform, and the difficulty in earning enough money to meet this cost may easily result in the sacrifice of health...
...Many and diverse were the hopes and expectations we had formed for them, but every one of these has been surpassed by the event. They have all been found capable of making the greatest denial of self that men can make; they paid away their own life that the life of their fellows might be happy. To put into words the reverence that we owe to the young who have worked and suffered and died for us is beyond our powers...
...because they have to, a few because they want to. When a man picks out his college, one of the most important factors in his choice is the presence of opportunities for earning money. In most cases the State universities, from Michigan to California, provide all the opportunities for self-support that one can expect, and they emphasize this in their literature. A boy graduating from high school in Illinois knows that it will be comparatively easy for him to make his own way at the University of Chicago or at the State university--easy, that is, compared with what...
...Harvard create more opportunities for self-help and, like Princeton, attract the country's attention to her democratic and progressive spirit--Emerson had the job of "President's Freshman." The problem of nation-wide representation will then be on the way to a solution, and Western and Southern states will be as well represented at Harvard as is the State of New York. FREDERICK BUTLER...
...Student Council has hit upon a commendable idea in proposing the adoption of a system of student waiters at the University dining halls. The possibilities of the dining halls as aids to self-supporting students are coming more and more to be realized by the universities. Princeton adopted the system last fall, and reports excellent results. At present the Varsity Club and Foxcroft Hall give employment to a very few men. Memorial and the Freshman Dormitories offer facilities for aiding large numbers more. Men both in the College and in the Graduate Schools constantly apply at the Student Employment Office...