Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking the task of providing employment aid and advice to graduating seniors out of the hands of the Student Employment Office, the service has taken a forward step. In an organization already occupied to its fullest capacity with the problem of supplying part-time and summer employment to the self-supporting undergraduate there is little time and energy left to devote to seniors. The new service leaves the advisers with free hands...
...found in the personal advantage accruing from the responsibility to the student than in the fact that he is now recognized as a potentially safe risk by investment houses. His early establishment of credit and operation of the loan on a sound business basis naturally creates a measure of self-reliance in the formative period of life which should be of immense value in later years. Gratitude should be expressed to the Harmon trustees as much for the practical economic experience gained by the recipients of the loans as for the opportunities the trust fund offers them...
...prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...
...literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
...advantage in dormitories where they can make contacts and friendships, and possibly have some. Hollywood ideas of college corrected under tactful guidance, but the watchdog attitude that a dormitory supervisor is forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater and at grips with the world for a living...