Word: self-control
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...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...characters of college football players, for they are often victims of a vicious system which they feel forced to support. The fact remains that the game is responsible for a condition which fails to foster manly virtues, and which is a detriment to the development of honor and self-control...
Dean Shaler, in introducing Professor Moore, spoke of the self-control which he always derived from attending the morning service in Appleton Chapel. Professor Moore enlarged upon this idea, telling how a man in the midst of life needs a lantern to give him his bearings. Some of us, he said, are here by the sacrifices of our parents; all of us are sent to College with great expectations from father or mother. Now is the chance by living up to these paternal ambitions to change our relation to father or mother from that of son to that of companion...
...crew races with Yale. Our football record is little better, and the baseball system is deteriorating. Every Freshman can materially help the athletic condition in the University by taking an interest in College sports. Athletics are a splendid mental discipline. Besides this they are physical training, and increase self-control...
...Miss Jane Sever was at every situation and incident delightfully expressive, and especially so in the fourth act, where she proved an adequate foil to Marlowe's intensity. Miss Emma C. Noyes as "Her Ladyship" looked the part to perfection, and gave it the required degree of snap and self-control, and Mrs. Hutchinson took full advantage of a short part in "Dame Benet...