Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the past 12 weeks the Students' Employment Bureau of the University of Michigan Y. M. C. A. has provided work for 1,605 self-supporting undergraduates. During the past 30 days 595 men have been given jobs, while 353 additional interviews were held for the purpose of helping students to find work for themselves. Last year the bureau supplied 2,187 positions for working students, which was 80 per cent, of the applications field. Thirty-one different nationalities are registered with the bureau. Freshmen seeking assistance outnumber the seniors seven to one. Thus far this year only three undergraduates...
...duty of everyone, but especially of college graduates and men of education, to take an interest in public affairs. They need not run for office. Often more good can be done by helping others into office than by being a candidate one's self. The great assets that they and younger men bring with them to their work are enthusiasm and a belief in ideals. Their service will be of assistance to themselves as well as to the public. It will broaden them and open their eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn...
...character; but that is true only if it is blind and unwilling. Look at Switzerland. It is said that military training develops too far the pugnacious instincts, which should rather be lulled to rest. Again, look at Switzerland. No passion is made more unruly by being instructed and self-conscious; the reverse is true. A course of lessons in boxing adds nothing to the likelihood that a man will attack his neighbor on the street; though it may well make-him more ready to go to the aid of a neighbor in distress. It is forgotten by those who urge...
Both Gay and Martin, as Don Jose, suffered from self-consciousness during the first act and did not reach the height of their powers until the third act, when they absolutely forgot themselves and did splendidly. Martin has a tightness in the throat which is very common among German tenors...
...importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard for the mental and moral status of boys whom they receive as students, would be attended by immediate results. An association of institutions solemnly joined in compact to end, with respect to themselves at least, the present situation as regards preparatory school...