Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...careful consideration of the figures in the report of the Graduate Treasurer of athletics has brought us to a final conclusion on two questions long under consideration. The report shows beyond question of doubt that the rule that now attempts to make all minor teams self-supporting is to all intents and purposes a dead letter; and furthermore that the accessibly of dunning the student body for subscriptions has passed, and the troublesome system should be abolished...
This school preaches the gospel of education through self-help and lays stress on the importance of manual work in the development of intellectual and moral worth...
...applications must be accompanied by bills, money orders, or checks made payable to the Harvard Athletic Association for $3 (front row seats) or $2.50, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Applications may be obtained at the office of the Athletic Association or at Leavitt & Peirce...
...Song for Twilight," by Mr. Wheelock, is surprisingly mature in technique and genuinely individual. It is poetically satisfying; indeed the second and third stanzas are instinct with are potency. Mr. Porter's "Matter of Conscience" is a trifle too self-conscious to be completely successful, and neither of the two figures emerges from the scholastic vagueness of the story's atmosphere. Yet the style is one of case and experience...
...Self-government for the benefit of all the governed will be an idle dream until inside information about the facts of the government becomes possible. Monopoly of information must precede monopoly of franchise. When all men are looking, corrupt politicians walk quite as straight a line as college presidents. As the Independent said recently, in urging a permanent endowment for the Bureau of Municipal Research, "Attempts at reform have failed in New York and elsewhere because the Republican and Democratic Tammany Halls of our cities have had inside information and have been able to make black look white because...