Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most formidable players in college. The mere winning of a prize is not the primary object for which the tournament was originated, but rather that all who enjoyed tennis might go in, try their luck, and have some sport. This spirit of dreading to pit oneself against a better player for fear of being beaten is entirely out of place here. However, those who have entered seem determined to struggle hard for the championship, and as the courts are now in prime condition and the weather promises to be fair for a few days at least, the games will probably...
...fitting oneself for one's work in this world the first requisite to success is health. How important it is, then, that everyone should understand the working of the human body. How many of those who pass through college and without going to the medical school, and enter on their life work,- how many of them have any proper knowledge of physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every...
...denied that there must be a great deal of advantage accruing to a man from an examination of other men's themes, which he would get in no other way that has as yet been suggested. This comparison of the styles of others, and possibly of better writers than oneself might be obtained by distributing the themes in the same manner as at present. Whoever is at all interested in his work in English would not grudge the time necessary to read the theme as it would take little more than five minutes. He would then be spared the trouble...
Again, to be among students, to be at a seat of learning where study, serious investigation, and every phase of intellectual activity are in the very air, is to have oneself aroused and, if not wholly, yet partially drawn into the whirlpool of mental and intellectual life. No one will deny that all such influences, quickening the mind and inspiring the thought, are beneficial and elevating...
...very little, if at all, and to see and know what men are and what they may and ought to be, to be associated with every kind of man, that the country affords through differences in locality or occupation or early education and circumstances, is the better to prepare oneself to meet the same, only stronger and more serious characters in later life