Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granting of such scholarships would show the supreme confidence in the theory that true education is self-education. A start in this direction has been made, however, and some such scholarship might well be established for study at Harvard...
...terrible hours Senator Bingham spent on the witness stand before the Senate Lobby Committee explaining, trying to explain and justify Eyanson. Savage and sneering was his examination by Senators Walsh, Caraway and Blaine. When he attempted to speak in self-defense, Senator Walsh jerked him up with: "The trouble you're in now is due to the fact that you talk too much." He writhed in his chair and his cheeks were crimson in contrast to his white hair as the investigators spoke of "falsification" and "serving two masters...
...greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside, confident that the men in both institutions will celebrate the usual mysteries uninhibited by the "good-behavior" self-conciousness inspired by drill sergeant reception committees and the tramp of marching...
...dropping dimes in beggars caps; the grateful glances of the aided are so humiliating to all concerned. And yet, friends, it is not even this that causes us our heated blush. It is that so many of us, in years gone by, have stealthily tipped our caps ourselves, in self-defense against forgetful upper-classmen. And still, despite sharp memories of these painful moments of protective self-tipping, we continue to submit each incoming class to the same humiliating process. We say our word for quick reform and we have no doubt that the humbled class of 1933 will shout...
...sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...