Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more summers in this way might be enrolled as part of the Reserve for service in case of war. This training, if it is possible to arrange a satisfactory plan, would be useful to the individual, and it would also be a patriotic method of preparing one's self to serve the country in time of need. It would, furthermore, afford a first-hand knowledge of the Navy and its preparedness...
...nothing else, as to have only a sneer and a hiss for such an alumnus? Harvard's hiss cannot hurt Mr. Roosevelt, but it can and will hurt Harvard in the judgment and the regard of the American people. I am appealing to the College to assert its better self against those whose conduct is bringing reproach upon it. J. L. MOORE...
...constituency of an educational institution, and if the Employment Office might devise some scheme for collecting the information suggested, it would render the University a valuable service. Such a record helps to show what sort of men are attending the University, and what are the opportunities offered for self-advancement. Certainly any such encouraging report as has just come from Columbia should stimulate any ambitious youth who hesitates at a financial risk in going through college. Furthermore, the fact that such a large number of students are taking advantage of the opportunities offered shows how well the educational institutions...
Like the great majority of present-day farces, "Believe Me, Xantippe!" depends very largely for its humor on its melodramatic touches. To have been told ten years ago that melodrama was on the way to becoming ludicrous would have been sacrilege; yet in this day of self-styled musical comedy the "blood and thunder" is quite the funniest thing we have on our stage--except of course in the "movies" where, fortunately for us, the sinning and the sinned-against are polite enough to allow themselves to be seen but never heard. It is perhaps this speaking out in meeting...
...Palmer has been known to hundreds of students in his two popular courses, Philosophy A and Philosophy 4, the former one of the best known courses in the University, and the latter the course which Owen Wister '82 described, the old Philosophy 4. Professor Palmer's writings have included "Self-cultivation in English," selections from which have long been used in English A, and "The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer...