Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life of the human race, began President Eliot, has a long infancy. One third of life is spent in preparing for the other two thirds. The first thing that a man must seek is good health; this, however, is not left all to one's self for we inherit many disorders. If we start with feeble bodies we can do much to make them strong. Of this we have a good example here, for not only have we seen improvement in athletes but also in the average physique. Let no man despair because he starts out with some physical error...
...Annexation is consistent with the policy of the United States. - (a) The Monroe Doctrine demands that we take measures of self protection: Monroe's Seventh Annual Message in Amer. Hist. Leaflets, No. 4; Wharton, I. Section 62. - (b) Hawaii has been gravitating towards the United States for fifty years: Trib. Jan. 29, 1893; Wharton, I. Section 62. - (c) The United States has not refused acquisition of territory under favorable conditions: Cases of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, Alaska; Wharton, I. Section...
...Hawaii does not want annexation: N. Y. World, Feb. 7; - (a) Interferes with self gov't.; N. Y. Post, Feb. 6. Nation, Feb. 13. - (b) Work of Speculators: Nation, Feb. 2, 23; World, Feb. 14; - (c) Native population extremely opposed to it: Nation, Feb. 2; N. Y. Post...
...know only that it was he whom God chose to be his apostle. This alone shows that he must have been a man who had been with Christ and had known him, who was full of religious zeal and who was ready to sacrifice himself. Zeal and self sacrifice are the two chief characteristics of the apostles, and if we would live like them we must be zealous in religion and we must learn to sacrifice ourselves. There are two kinds of zeal, one blind and uninstructed, and one according to knowledge. Headlong zeal will never bring success in anything...
...does not work, but we know that Christ's law is a success. For are not the very qualities which we honor and emulate in Phillips Brooks and Abraham Lincoln and all noble men, their forgetfulness of self? If, then, we know what the highest is, let us as educated men strive to obtain it, and give to politics and to society the healthful influence of our training and our learning. Let us devote ourselves, that we may save ourselves...