Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life of self-command to be attained? Only through the religious life. And what is the substance of religion? The sum of the religious life, the preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...
...opinion as to Harvard's probable chances upon it. A new coxswain goes in the Yale boat this year. Thompson, a little freshman weighing less than 100 pounds, will take the seat in which the tiny Cadwell urged the eight on to victory. Cadwell was a man whose self-control added greatly to the strength of the Yale crew, and I am sure that the new man has equally as good nerve. - New York Post...
...course there is absolutely no means of judging of the relative powers of the ancients and the moderns in the "noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They...
...selfish principle defeats itself. The opposite principle of which Christ is the great example he has himself set before us, "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Hold to the lowly duty, lose your life in self-sacrifice, is the lesson of the text...
...should extend over all the associations and should have the power to remove any officer who should be found incompetent for his position, the result would doubtless be advantageous to all interests concerned. As I understand it, the foot-ball and base ball associations are at present not only self-supporting, but even have a surplus in the treasury, while the navy and athletic associations have to depend largely upon subscriptions for support. One of the rules of the constitution of the proposed consolidation at Harvard is that, if a surplus remains at the end of the year...