Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commercial expansion in the Orient. He said that for humanitarian, if for no other reasons, the army should remain in the Islands for many years to come, and that while the Moros were a race with many remarkable characteristics, they were in no way suited for self government, being accustomed to and respecting only a power which combined the civil and military control in the same hands...
...that the November hour examinations are over a justifiable feeling of self-satisfaction doubtless pervades those men who have safely passed this trying ordeal. There is, perhaps, a pardonable tendency to indulge in a little ease and recreation. After unusual exertion, self-pity is natural, and it is pleasant to pursue the Siren, Self-indulgence. But therein lurks the ever-present danger of demoralization. Again we warn all students, and especially those new to the ways of the University and as yet unadapted to university life, not to abate their zeal in doing their prescribed college work, now that they...
...many sections and schools prevalent misconceptions of Harvard, as self-sufficient, indifferent, undemocratic, is largely due to a lack of reliable information about existing conditions. The alumni clubs are effective agents in carrying out the good work of education, but there is ample opportunity for undergraduate organizations to work with them and to reach into unoccupied country. A great amount of material for distribution is at hand; systematic co-operation on the part of the existing clubs will send it at small expense of time and money to places where it will be effective in bringing the best...
...deluded and the unhealthy" is rather supported than disproved by most of the evidence in the essay. But perhaps the author's chief purpose, as he himself suggests, was only to combat his own tendency to a narrow rationalism and to cultivate a wider intellectual sympathy. In this self-discipline he seems to have been entirely successful...
...life. To meet and greet, freely and cordially, whatever members may be found in or about the building and to become mutually interested in all the details of one another's studies and lives, without the necessity of a formal introduction or of an apology for introducing one's self should be the first, every-day rule of membership. Then, the better to cultivate this general sociability there should be one evening of each week during which the entire building should be used for Social Entertainments wherein all the instructors, officers, and alumni as well as students of the University...