Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moeldner played the movement from the Schumann concerto with fluent and well-founded technique, an excellent interpretive style, although he tended at times to undue self-restraint. The orchestra accompanied alike with freedom and self-control in a manner that reflected highly upon its skill as well as that of its conductor...
...tossed into the rough-and-tumble of ordinary life, he finds his university polish of little avail, if he cannot make his stock of learning show to the best advantage. Public speaking helps him to do this. But it does more besides. It drives away the bug-bear of self-consciousness. It adds to a man's poise and balance. It supplies self-confidence...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURES. "Egypt. II. The Early Dynastic Period (to Snefru)." Professor Reisner. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket. Tickets may be obtained free, on request, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, if application is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURES. "Egypt, 11. The Early Dynastic Period (to Snefru)." Professor Reisner. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket. Tickets may be obtained free, on request, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, if application is accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...puerile habit of stamping. As a means of expressing approval or disapproval of what a lecturer says, the use of a pair of large and hardy feet (organs indispensable in many emergencies) is absurd. Men of impulsive natures with frequent and acute temptations to stamp in lectures, should practice self-restraint. If they must give vent to their feelings let them lock themselves in their rooms after the lecture is over, and calling to mind all the humorous incidents of the hour, stamp to their hearts' content. This will not annoy the lecturer nor the grown-up members...