Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from Harvard men in the last six months that to procure efficiency in peace and war there is great merit in implicit obedience. How is that as an educational doctrine among Harvard men? In the education which we received it was not obedience which was taught to us, but self-control and the development of personal initiative...
...Passos admirably conveys the spirit of the prairies; and Nelson's "Madam" strikes an original vital poetic note. His readers, however, should not turn the page. The remaining verse is more conventional. Hillyer's first sonnet too clearly recalls Drayton; his second, Donne: they constitute studies rather than self-expression. The anonymous run on sonnet appears at line fourteen to have missed connections. Howe's sapphics, on the other hand, are metrical and in phrasing delightful though artificial...
This plan was found to be very successful last year, due in large measure to the saving of time. All those who desire such service should communicate with George McF. Galt, secretary of the Bureau of Student Self-Help, 48 Mercer street, Princeton, N. J., enclosing the money for the number of meals desired. The address of the places where their meals will be ready will then be mailed to these...
...first number of the Review for this academic year is in itself unique. The journal of University life and thought has become on this occasion a record of the death and self-devotion of Cambridge men. It is a record of which any University might be proud. At present it is estimated that ten thousand, two hundred and fifty Cambridge men have come forward to serve their country. Already nearly one in seven is numbered among the killed, the wounded, or the prisoners. The most brilliant gifts intellectual, administrative and physical, have been offered freely and without complaint upon...
...fading embers of the sacred fire of our University, that she may welcome back in the days of peace those who left her so readily at the call of duty, and keep ever fresh in the days to come the names of her noble sons whose lives have been self-dedicated to the service of their native land...