Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Closer than David & Jonathan, closer than Manuel & Esteban, were Daisy & Daphne. Closer because their relationship was not that of equals: Daisy admired from the depths of her self-disgust, Daphne tolerated from the fastnesses of her self-confidence. And because Daisy's inferiority complex cowered behind Daphne's blithe assurance, Daphne was bound the closer by protective responsibility for the girl she despised...
...such problems as would be created by the Moro minority and the difficulties of preserving the independence of territory of such economic and strategic value to other nations would test the ability of a people well trained in diplomacy, to say nothing of one new to the responsibilities of self-government. Development of natural resources would likewise be more difficult if the capital of the United States were to be alienated...
...next week, today marks the culmination of the indoor season. So with only a faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment, he will listen to Professor Parker's discourse upon "Parasites," in the Zoology Lecture Room at 10 o'clock...
...coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student...
Expenditure for this kind of knowledge is made in the precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...