Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Senior class it was unanimously voted that the old custom of wearing caps and gowns after May 1 be continued, and today it is for the members to carry out their resolutions with the same unanimity. If only a few are able to conquer their self-consciousness and sally forth arrayed in their academic costumes, the reason for the custom will disappear. The only way to carry out the tradition properly is for every man to consider it an honor to be thus distinguished from the rest of the College. If this is done, the class cannot...
Free tickets to the annual University debate with Yale, to be held in Sanders Theatre Friday evening, may be obtained by applying at Upper Dane this morning between 10 and 12 o'clock. After 12 all those desiring tickets may obtain them by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Stoughton 2. Undergraduates will be given first choice of seats...
...minor sports made an advance over last year in an effort toward self-support, the total deficit being $300 less. On the other hand, subscriptions for six Freshman sports were very much poorer than for the same sports a year ago. The great decrease in the expenses of the Freshman crew may be attributed to a more equitable apportionment of the total New London expense, of which the Freshmen had been paying more than their share...
...present generation has tremendous resources for good and evil, in its wealth and prosperity and in its advancement in knowledge. This generation needs to learn self-control, sense of law and order, and the value of a high ideal. Race prejudice must be wiped out, and the great field of psychological research must be directed. These are the calls of the present need for strong men in positions of responsibility...
...studies are coming to be called, concern themselves, as did the old humanities with the strivings of the human spirit, but with its strivings after justice rather than beauty. That Harvard students are awake to these interests, as well as to the problems of physical science, and are doing self-organized work in this direc- tion, is shown by an article on "Socialism at Harvard," by W. Lippmann. It would, of course, be more commendable if this interest would show itself in some more rational form than socialist propaganda, but even zeal without knowledge may be better than no zeal...