Word: self-control
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...come here as well prepared as any young men in the world, but you have led protected lives," Mr. Adams continued. "You haven't been tested by the real difficulties that the world offers. No, you've got to learn self-control. It is the armor which protects you from landing in the gutter of failure. The world that you have to face is a pretty dark one. Men enter with serious determination and singleness of purpose. You have got to find your way on. Here, you have the opportunity to gather strength to meet that battle. Today, as always...
...significant characteristics; this group will point with ill-disguised glee to the latest innovation of that institution. With all the ludicrous pomposity that misguided sincerity can impart, Rollins college has imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds, "truth, courtesy, cheerful cooperation, and loyalty to Rollins...
...point of view adopted by the School in undertaking this training in broader social problems of business, the pamphlet states, is "a deliberate determination to take in hand the elements that control our future. It involves voluntary self-control by business in preference to enforced social control become of course topics to be most seriously studied...
...independence on the part of the students. He urges an even greater degree of management of their own affairs so that they may function "as people should." And it is his testimony, as well as that of President Aydelotte, that the student response under proper guidance is characterized by "self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." Like views have recently been expressed by Dean Gauss at Princeton. There are signs that our colleges and universities are moving to a higher plane of intellectual life. Those who have been critical are seeing fruits of their persistent preaching. It cannot be doubted that...
...turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer was nearly over his patience and self-control were shaky. Of course he fell in love, and of course he had a stormy time of it. Equally of course all turned out for the melodramatic best...