Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surrounding districts. But for the help of the better elements of white population the negro race could never have made the wonderful progress it has in the fifty years of its existence in freedom. The feeling between the races is constantly improving as the negro becomes more self-respecting and more worthy of the respect of his white neighbors. The number of lynchings is decidedly on the decrease, the number being less last year than in any previous year for over a quarter of a century. Newspapers are all too apt to exaggerate the evidences of bad feeling while failing...
...This spirit of individualism is very much in evidence in every part of the University, whether in the Yard, the dormitories, or the Harvard Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many a man owes his intellectual rebirth to this very spirit of individualism...
...does not feel the restraint or the stimulus of a college spirit brought directly to bear on the individual, he is likewise free to play the fool. He is also free to be unutterably lonely. Without knowing it he may suffer a partial atrophy of his best self. If he finds congenial associates, they are most likely to be men like himself, and his circle of friendship is rarely large. Most students do not begin to have a speaking acquaintance with many of their own class until the very end of Senior year when they realize dimly for the first...
...added responsibility on both the captains and the players, but it will mean that more stress will be put on co-operation and team play. With this in view through the early season, the players will learn to depend on themselves and will develop a greater feeling of self-reliance. In addition, the players will, on their own initiative, have put into practice what they have learned of inside baseball. Moreover, if this plan is adopted it will show more clearly just how far advanced college baseball actually...
...Ability," by J. D. Phillips '97, and "How Students Pay Their Way," by M. Gray, Jr., '06. The first shows, from carefully compiled statistics, that the leadership in undergraduate life is by no means confined to those whose means are sufficient to put them through without any efforts of self-support on their part. The second article explains the work of the Employment Bureau and the nature of work secured by the student through...