Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped that all the students concerned will comply with the request to answer frankly and seriously. The Department of Economics, recognizing that to help men to self-help is as high an end as the scholarly presentation of a subject, and that men taking a course for distribution are entitled to as good service as are specialists, is starting in the right direction...
...feet? Cambridge certainly has a law which requires property owners to keep the sidewalks cleared of snow and slush. Harvard has been extremely lax in complying with that ordinance. At present no one can get to classes or anywhere with dry feet, unless he wears "Arctics" that no self-respecting western farmer would wear to town on market days. It is to be hoped that this condition will soon be remedied and that we shall not have to wade through the ice until the kind sun melts it away. We hear so much about the unemployed. Here is a chance...
...work will differ from that in the ordinary course, in that, the student, under the direction and advice of his instructor, will be thrown upon his own initiative. The courses will therefore aim not only to acquaint a man thoroughly with his chosen subject, but to make him more self-reliant and independent in his judgments. Against American education, in general, the criticism may be brought that the students depend too much upon what is told them, upon memory rather than thought. It is necessary to recognize authority but it is also of the highest importance to discover upon what...
...members of the University to share their own abstemiousness. Granting that beer is harmful, there would remain some question of the wisdom of this proceeding in a University that attempts to train men for a life where most people are necessarily run by themselves and not by various self appointed supervisors...
Perhaps beer is the source of all the sins on earth; perhaps, on the other hand, it is the divinest of nectars. The CRIMSON is hardly self-righteous enough to arbitrate the question. Class dinners, it is true, have not been spotless, and perhaps are not yet so. But the morale of such functions is constantly improving, and there is no reason to fear that this year will mark a relapse into the orgies of a decade ago. The man so weak-kneed that he cannot refrain from undue excesses is more frowned on and less popular than he used...