Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life, and be in harmony with the spirit of the times. Yale never occupied as favorable a position in the eyes of the public as at the present time. While vigorously defending whatever has been most conducive to success in her past policy...
...debarred many from the service. So young men to-day entering into the war of life may be kept from success by small temptations and weakness. The struggle of life requires physical and brain power, as well as the loftiest kind of morality. Drinking is more a sin against self, a sin like gluttony, licentiousness. The brain not only rules the body but it is dependent upon the body; so that an injury to one injures the other. Drinking is largely the first cause which fills prisons and asylums. Drink is a sin against others, against mothers, sisters and wives...
...many colonial industries which began to compete with the flourishing industries of England. These obnoxious restrictions were among the causes of the Revolution. It was the mechanical genius and enterprise of the colonists and their geographical situation which caused this prosperity. A tariff, however, tends to destroy the self-reliance of the manufacturer, and teaches him to depend on the support of the government, where he should depend on his own abilities. This is the most dangerous and demoralizing effect of a system of high tariff. A tariff forces capital into those occupations where it would not naturally...
Article 25 begins, "The aim of these Articles of Agreement is to secure truthfulness, prompt redress of grievances, fair treatment for all, and that education and self-restraint which come from participation in and submission to a representative government...
...attributed this result largely to the jury system, which, by making the students themselves responsible for the maintenance of good order, has caused them to feel a pride in showing that they are capable of self-restraint...