Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trust for the benefit of others. The latter solution is the one which leads to the only true Christian life. Inclination to wards self-service must yield to the duty of serving others. In this service is the greatest possibility of usefulness and so the greatest assurance of real happiness...
...self, an effort is made to give him confidence...
...extension of the term of probation: American Citizen, Nov. 17 1894; Harper's Weekly, Oct. 27, 1894.- (d) It advocates the prohibition of pauper imigration: Harper's Weekly, Oct. 27, 1894.- (e) It advocates the restriction of immigration to all except to those who show promise of becoming self-supporting American citizens: Harper's Weekly, Oct. 27, 1894; American Citizen...
...universities lapsed. Obviously they could only be restored by the party that broke them off. Here comes the whole question at issue. Which college really took the initiative, the one that made a demand which public opinion has adjudged it impossible to comply with without loss of self-respect, or the one that merely states its inability to accede to this demand? "Call black, white," says Yale, "or we shall not play." "We cannot," says Harvard. Whose fault is it that there is no game this year...
...That Harvard men everywhere, and doubtless Yale men too, would greatly regret such an interruption of the athletic relations which had continued so many years unbroken, but that the sentiment of Harvard men was well night universal that no other course was open to them without a sacrifice of self respect. As one Harvard man put it, "If Mr. A. is unwilling to breakfast with Mr. B. it is hardly to be expected that Mr. B. will think it becoming for him to lunch and dine with...