Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard defeated Amherst at Amherst yesterday afternoon by a score of 6 to 0. The Harvard nine put up its best game of the season, showing unusual dash and self-confidence, and playing an errorless game in the field...
...member of the French Academy to speak at this University. He is a typical Frenchman and one of the best type; he will give us a truer idea of the French and their literature than we can ever derive from paper-covered novels and sensational plays. He is a self-made man, in the best sense of the expression-one who, starting without wealth or rank, has made himself an authority by sheer energy, patience and labor...
...them to be too sure of success in the important contests and for this very reason to fail to do all that they are capable of. It is to be hoped that this will remain an old failing and that the University will not be guilty of it again. Self-reliance is a good quality until it leads to carelessness. If the ability of the crew to learn is only as great as that of Mr. Lehmann to teach and if the rest of us are not afflicted with that absolute, serene confidence which has sometimes existed, a long step...
...first of the competitive debates to choose a team from the Freshman Debating Club to speak against the Sophomore members of the Harvard Union, was held last evening in Sever 11. The question for debate was "Resolved, That Hawaii should be annexed to the United States as a self-governing territory, to be admitted as a state only with the consent of all the states." The trial was open to all members of the club...
Question: "Resolved, That Hawaii should be annexed to the United States as a self-governing territory, to be admitted as a state only with the consent of all the states...