Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cline is a graduate of the Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was captain of his football team and high man in his class. He also got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his third year, and has been self supporting while in college...
...this scheme that every effort should be made to preserve these, even at the expense of painting over other original aims. There are three separate and distinct aspects to the American Civilization Plan. First is its extra-curricular nature. This looks toward the inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well as political history, all brought into a unified and correlated whole. Third...
...history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars who have enriched the Harvard community. Yet it has had meagre success in the attainment of a primary goal, which was to lure students into the realms of extra-curricular study, to inoculate them with the virus of self-education...
...outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns on the entrance to the building. Inside the palace, the Rodríguez followers armed themselves. Self-proclaimed President Rodríguez hurriedly prepared two manifestoes, one to the people, the other to the armed forces, and sent them to the newspapers...
Your recent editorial criticism of Professor Bridgman's Manifesto derives logically from the values of a democratic society. But there is a limit to the consistency of courses of action; self defense is part of a deeper logic for all men and all societies. At the present juncture of world circumstance, you have uttered a counsel in the logic of self-destruction...