Word: self
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...from the Bible the account of Peter's attempt to persuade his Master not to go to Jerusalem and of Christ's answer to the tempter. Peter, the speaker said, had been the first to realize the meaning of the Saviour's mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action the disciple hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they find between them and the fulfilment of these ideals long years of drudgery and self-sacrifice, they hold back from the struggle and are content to remain...
Despite these real difficulties, however, there yet remains abundant cause for self-congratulation. The policy of the faculty in regard to athletics, as mentioned in the report, has become wiser and more lenient, and has thus added another incentive to the spirit of co-operation which already binds to a considerable degree faculty and student. It is this sort of policy, and this only, which will allow our University to exert its fullest influence...
...apparent wish to yield to another the responsibility of the call "Follow Me" probably arose from a sense of his own intellectual and morality incapacity. Thus it is with us. When we are called to the performance of some sacred duty, we first turn to the examination of self, and find that we have few of the qualities for a successful leader. Therefore we turn away and say that another must start the work and then we shall give our help. If we would only surrender self to God, we should find that He would give us the grace...
...words of President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, in the last number of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is the province of the university to take men who have the drill of the academy and the breadth of view which the college gives, and help them to carry forward self-chosen lines of special study to the limits of the world's attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths of knowledge, but the exploration of fields remote from the main lines of ordinary travel...
...carefully, and always with a due sense of proportion. (4) Fearlessness. Compliance with these demands, which are made by the scientific method on all of its willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely...