Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...anything about the candidate for the council or the representative, a thing that every workman is familiar with, and he knows very little even about his senator. But the college man can make good use of his economic knowledge of tariff and labor questions, and can control the government. "Self-government is the key-note of our institutions." Every well-educated man has that power for good or evil in his hands. Mr. Murray, then said that the current idea about Mr. Vahey, the Democratic nominee for governor, that he did "everything with a brass band," was false; and that...
...jealousies, the cosmopolitanism, that very "indifference" and "lack of college spirit," which consists of having one's own opinions on collegiate as on other matters,--in short, all those qualities which make our University great as opposed to provincial insure the success of any well launched scheme of undergraduate self-government...
...there is not room for all, preference among persons equally qualified will be given to those applying first. Anyone desiring to join the course can obtain an application blank by writing to the Lowell Institute Collegiate Courses, care of the Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Further information may be obtained by writing to the same address...
...made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast amount of work needing to be done...
...many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary individual interests and pursuits which...