Word: self-support
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...training for life after graduation, working one's way through college is not a "social waste." Furthermore, although financial independence is a primary requisite for the brilliant and creative scholar, nevertheless, to those who want only the general cultural value of a college education, our present system of self-support is adequate...
...difficult to ascertain the exact physical and mental handicaps undergone by the average undergraduate working for his living. Certainly he encounters fewer difficulties than if he were struggling alone; here he finds others interested in his own cause. True, undergraduate self-support means addition to the effort of maintenance to the effort of education, which naturally lends to decrease efficiency of education but given greater appreciation of its value. But self-supporting groups composed of only the so-called bright would signalize the failure of democratic education...
...unwise from the standpoint of the veterans themselves and unwise from the standpoint of the welfare of all the people. . . . But of much graver importance is the whole tendency to open up the Federal Treasury to a thousand purposes. . . . Each of them breaks the barriers of self-reliance and self-support in our people...
...married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
...chemical industry universal progress has taken place; in almost every branch France is advancing toward self-support to all practical purposes-the home market, which now is substantially larger than in 1913, absorbs 30 per cent less imports, while exports are superior by 140 per cent...