Word: self
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Appleton chapel was opened yesterday for the last Sunday service for the class of '89. This annual Baccalaureate service is always well appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect...
...been for some years a Harvard University team and as such has made agreement for games in the league to which it belongs. If it forfeits these games so much to our discredit. But now it seems that the scheduled game will be played owing to the self sacrifice and high sense of honor of the members of the association. While the college is relieved that lacrosse will not be an object of unwilling support in coming years, it must concede that this season should be finished honorably; and therefore should feel grateful to the men who will bring this...
...long been known that the alumni of Yale desire a change in the form of government of the college Yale is the most conservative of at American colleges, and this conservatism is in a large measure traceable to the Corporation. The majority of the Corporation is composed of a self perpetuating body of ten clergymen representing the Congregational church of Connecticut; besides these there are six representatives of the alumni in the governing board. But the clergymen, as a selfappointed majority, have control of the financial and educational policy of the college, and indeed of all matters connected with...
Professor Peabody read a portion of the third chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians. He spoke of vesper services, and of the motives which have been the underlying inspiration of them, He defined these motives as self reproach and self respect. These motives come to every man, the one from below urging him to rise to a sense of his obligations, the other from above beckoning him on into the realms of opportunity. The true self respect does not rise out of the man himself, as an isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from...
...become discouraged because he does not see the value of his work. It has a place in the plan of God. If students could only realize that their own individuality is essential to the complete fulfillment of God's plan, and that His plan envelops all theirs, conceit and self-consciousness would no longer be characteristic of University life. Dr. Brooks closed his remarks with a plea for higher ideas...