Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their advisers' suggestions, though some of the sophisticated may have smiled in their sleeves, and remembering this, should be willing to impress on their charges the course which will make their lives at Harvard not only free from vicissitudes but full of a new and valuable sort of self-respect...
...heart of man in his most idealistic, unfettered period, because the spirit that gives it life is the spirit of youth itself. The undergraduate, intent on baseball and comic opera, sighs that the Monthly is remote. It is he who is remote--from his own inner self...
...class of men from whom, in time of a national emergency, a large proportion of the commissioned officers may be drawn. Aside from this, the camps will give a healthy, out of door life for the summer vacation at low expense. The habits of discipline, obedience, command, self-control, order, and personal hygiene formed, the interest of the localities, the mutual benefit, received by intimately mixing with students of other colleges, and the opportunity for athletic work would all commend the plan...
...organization exclusively with reference to the mechanism of state government, treating the subject fully. In reaching his conclusions, he stated that neither representative government nor government by law nor any combination between the two are competent to meet all the requirements of a democratic policy. A clear-sighted, self-confident and loyal democracy will keep in its own hands the active control of all the agents and instruments of its own fulfillment. The instinctive repugnance which the American democracy has always exhibited to the delegation of too much power to any one of the separate departments of government is explicable...
...printing establishment. A press was instituted in 1478, but it did not come under the direct control of the university until 1585. Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...