Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bureau of Student Self-Help at Princeton University has offered to make arrangements for providing meals for all members of the University who will be at Princeton for the football game next Saturday. The accommodations for meals at Princeton are limited and the prices very high. The Bureau aims to provide meals for individuals or parties at private homes at one dollar a meal...
...prevented the applicants from establishing the necessary residence. It is with reference to the last two points that the case is of interest to Harvard students. In each of the cases in which registration was granted, the applicant presented evidence to show that he was wholly or in part self-supporting, and that he was free from parental control. Of the four men who were refused registration, one withdrew his application, one had attained his majority within the six months, necessary to establish residence, while the other two admitted receiving a measure of their support from their parents...
Dean Scott justified the casting of the first-year men into the great sea of the law without an introduction as necessary to individual thought and self-reliance. "The friendly atmosphere and attitude between students and members of the Faculty of the Law School, is not equalled anywhere else in the world," Dean Scott asserted...
...ability or character, like his arch-enemy Benjamin F. Butler, but 'the wise years decide.' Weighed in the true scales could any fortune, however large, or any office, however high, could anything that he won for himself outbalance the unselfish service which he rendered to others? Is self-sacrifice failure? Shall we measure success by what a man gets, or by what he gives? Shall we forget the immortal words 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto...
...afford it. This nation has its affairs in its own hands, a position which every nation in Europe would give its life blood to reach. But until every man feels strongly that it is a part of his duty to have a hand in it, we cannot be a self-governing nation...