Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Baker closed with a strong appeal to all men who can debate at all to enter the competive debates, not only for the self-evident personal benefit, but to aid the cause of Harvard debating at this crisis...
...said in effect: Paul teaches the relation which exists in every man's nature between the past and the present, and with authority, for no man has experienced a more sudden, more absolute change from his original self, than the great apostle...
This movement is inspired, if by nothing else, by a motive of self-protection on the part of men who will be dependent on the results of their graduate work in after life. For them the degrees in themselves are not necessarily a mark of distinction at present. That is to say, it does not follow nowadays, at because a man is an A. M. he has done a year of good work after graduation, or because he is a Ph. D. he has by two or three years of advanced study made any valuable contribution to his chosen branch...
...arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...
...second illustration of the lecture was drawn from the "Merchant of Venice," in the self-sacrificing affection of Antonio and Bassanio for one another,- an affection, the speaker said, which is often lost sight of between the grandeur of the Shylock theme and the romantic charm of the history of Portia and the caskets...