Word: self-supporting
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...foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...standard is not an unreasonable one to be expected of students receiving financial assistance from University funds. For example, the 108 Alumni Scholars have earned by self-support employment during the past academic year an average of $375 per man, exclusive of summer work; have taken an active part in curriculum activities of all kinds and have won social, literary, dramatic and athletic recognition; but at the same time have maintained a general scholastic average of 79, within one point of 'honors' and well above the 'quality credit' average of 75 now being adopted as the minimum scholastic qualification...
...Many students, on the other hand, have been handicapped in their classroom work as a result of inadequate financial assistance and of the consequent necessity of spending front three to four hours a day in self-support. One reason why the average grade of the Alumni scholars is higher than that of scholarship recipients as a whale, may well be because of the markedly higher stipends, nearly $500, which Alumni scholars receive. It is hoped that the change in system will enable scholarship recipients to turn part of the time now taken up by self-support to more educationally advantageous...
...church-skyscraper was built by the Aid Society at a cost of $3,500,000 on property valued at $3,000,000, bequeathed many years ago to the Methodist Church. This Church aims at self-support and at making a profit, which is to be divided among other Methodist churches. "From first to last," explained the Secretary-Treasurer, "the erection of this building has been carried on according to strict business principles. It was financed by a mortgage, not by small bonds sold to church members. It pays taxes at the same rate as regular commercial buildings. It has been...
...upon solid ground of economic independence and self-respect. It is further felt", he says, "that the more generous and indiscriminate the scholarship awards, the less resourceful and desirable the type of man who responds to such an appeal". By awarding fewer and larger scholarships, he says, the school proposes to make them "goals toward which all men in residence shall be working". For those who do not win such scholarships, and for first-year men not yet eligible for them, the compensated church work will offer a chance for self-support combined with practical training...