Word: ego
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total surprise I found myself a contributor to Saturday's CRIMSON. After some four perusals of the communication labelled "Conditions Suggested," I was able to gather that the alter ego who had perpetrated this forgery had concealed within the article sentiments precisely opposite...
...frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal vanity or object of backsliding, but a just acquiescence to that same striving in others which we have set up for ourselves. See how gloriously the German people fights (rightly or wrongly): possibly one reason is German compulsory workmen...
...world and the ideal and Heaven, as "philistines". Can any good come out of Longfellow and Whittier, they cry, as they make themselves drunken with the scented, perishable cadences of a Wilde of a Dowson. If Mr. Wilson were to start a Society for the Abolition of the Ego in Minor Poets, he would have a large membership...
...from this abode of learning. Either the Union has lost its charm as a social rendezvous or ten dollars has assumed a great marginal utility, for almost daily there congregate in Gore Hall little groups to hold conversation on all manner of things, from Kant's conception of the Ego to the most effective way to please Instructor X. Although conversation on these subjects may be instructive and interesting for a few, we venture to mention the fact that there are usually men present in the Library who desire to study. During examinations when so many are doing serious work...