Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...freedom and extreme liberalism, rather than any conservatism, have long been the only cause of complaint. The names of Lowell and Emerson in the past are well matched today by those of Lowell and Eliot, of James and Santayana, of Taussig and Hart. It cannot be denied that intellectual restraint does exist in many colleges. That it does not exist at Harvard is one of our proudest boasts. In theory, Senator Hollis was right: but in fact he was wrong. Harvard is widely praised and widely attacked for leading the liberal thought of the country: to attack...
...several phrases. The insistency of the syncopation only aggravates the obviousness of the phraseology and the resulting monotony. The musician has no need to adopt the syncopated rhythm of ragtime; he has been using it freely since Bach, but he has been using it with variety and restraint and he will doubtless continue to do so, for the few cases where it has been handled otherwise have proved for the most part, trivial or unconvincing...
...here, however, that the defect of this 'quality' of individualism becomes manifest. Individualism and fellowship are more or less incompatible, just as individualism in politics is incompatible with democracy. If one is free at Harvard to develop as he pleases; if one does not feel the restraint or the stimulus of a college spirit brought directly to bear on the individual, he is likewise free to play the fool. He is also free to be unutterably lonely. Without knowing it he may suffer a partial atrophy of his best self. If he finds congenial associates, they are most likely...
...Harvard Law School affords, to carry the courts through this crisis. If the trouble is due not so much to the judges and the bar as to the people, them bring in "a government in which the people shall consent and insist on putting upon themselves the restraint which shall show them worthy to govern themselves...
...society should be of immense benefit to undergraduates who are interested in economics, inasmuch as it will afford an opportunity for a discussion of economic questions free from the usual class room restraint...