Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Dining Halls, this system to be based upon that put into practice at Princeton last fall. The fact that every year large numbers of men are turned away by the Student Employment Office, and that such opportunities for remunerative work would be accept able to many self-supporting students, was the basis for the vote. A recommendation will accordingly be submitted to the proper authorities...
...well just at this time to read William James's essay on "Habit." Man soon becomes a mere walking bundle of habits, he observes; the character of the habits determines the character of the man. And a habit, acquired in the next few days of applying one's self to study at regular intervals for six hours each day will do wonders in removing that probation, or bringing up those grades which must be brought...
...varieties of loafing. There is that which is unadulterated and continuous, and which soon eliminates one from membership in the University. There is the kind which is mixed with a little work; it is neither work nor play, but a pale concoction of both. This kills efficiency, contentment, and self-respect. Then there is the valuable sort; it is "scientific loafing." It comes in intervals of recuperation and inspiration between hours of concentrated effort. This makes for efficiency; it makes play more enjoyable because earned; and it brings the maximum of happiness: Scientific loafing means also scientific working. And work...
...Japanese government is now investigating American medical schools, so that students in this department will very likely be sent here in the future. As for the students that come over independently, many choose the United States because it affords opportunities for self-support that are available nowhere else. For, with the exception of the government students and those who are unusually well-to-do, the resources of the average Japanese young man are not great. The government of Japan spends only a hundred thousand dollars yearly for the support of students, which is given to the ablest alone...
...part of their expenses. Last year 461 men obtained employment during term time through the College Appointment Office alone. Tutoring, waiting on table, and snow-shoveling are among the doubtless "democratic" occupations of these students. And the recent election of marshals strikingly indicated the honor to which self-supporting students may rise in the esteem of their classmates...