Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Paid. JEWLIAN MONEYMAKER, ESQ.This is the bill, which speaks for it self. I hardly need to say that the "credit for errors" was made at my suggestion. The distinction between "other services" and "miscellaneous" is certainly an ingenious...
...Rigid Constitution gains in influence by age, and its permanency is shown by the fact that amendments carried in the legislature are usually rejected by the mass of the people The magic of self-love increases the respect felt for it ; but it is weakened by becoming a less adequate expression of the growing people's needs. The two great defects of the American Constitution are the absence of a uniform law of marriage, and the method of electing a president ; but so complicated is the machinery for altering the constitution that a reform in these points is hardly possible...
...could not save at least $5 this year, through the society, and most of us would lose $25 a year by higher prices in Cambridge, after the death of co-operation. Surely, in a simple matter of business like this, a mere question of saving money, of palpable self interest, we ought to be able to act like men of sense, and not like a lot of children! Every member of the society, every thinking student, ought to feel it his duty to deposit his $5 at the rooms before Monday evening. If more than $600 is secured, a percentage...
...which he eats and crunches away at his heart's delight. A generous man would pass his nice things around, but not he ! The crunching and other pleasant noises, which some men make while eating, are for the enjoyment of others ; the peanuts and candy are for his hungry self. But to all hungry men we would give this advice, that, if they must eat, they take a better place than the library reading-room ; or, if they must be constantly and uninterruptedly chewing, they try something more quiet than peanuts or candy,-say, chewing gum. Chewing gum is both...
...Sargent has written a small hand book entitled "In Case of Accident." which is just published. The material of this little work was first used in a series of lectures delivered by the doctor before the class in his ladies gymnasium. The doctor treats the subject of emergencies and self-preservation in time of danger in a practical manner that will commend the book to the public. It is neatly gotten up and full of illustrations...