Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...letter published in another column from the Yale Base Ball Association is self explanatory. It contains nothing new, but is simply a reassertion of the things laid down in the first letter. It is unfortunate that the challenge of Harvard was not received in the same sportsmanlike spirit in which it was sent. Harvard offered an easy solution for an unfortunate difficulty which had arisen, and we must feel that the burden of responsibility for the present strained condition is shifted from our shoulders by this reply which has now come from Yale. The position of Harvard remains the same...
There seems to be an opinion in the freshman class that their crew should be self-supporting...
...least that because the crew is handicapped by a debt of three hundred dollars from the freshman year men are freed from the moral obligation of supporting it. Granting that subscriptions for various college organizations have become a greater burden than can be borne without a good deal of self-sacrifice, still, since the class of '92 in the autumn showed no desire to stay out of the class races, every man should bear his share of the expense necessary in putting an eight on the water and not let the whole burden fall upon the comparatively few men whose...
...college, St. Johns, and then Magdalen, we reach the only elevated spot in all Cambridge, Castle Hill. From here could be seen Christ College, where Milton obtained his degree, and Emanuel. This latter college is rendered peculiarly interesting to Harvard students, for here John Harvard was famous. Here the self-appointed committee of the colony of Massachusetts met and indirectly laid the foundation of Harvard College...
...power of the endless life or the meaning of immortality. Immortality, he thought, is the highest motive force of life for righteousness. But he was careful to have it understood that it is not the only motive; immortality might be taken away and still the motives of self interest, of pure happiness, of wisdom in preference to folly would remain. Immortality may even become a harmful motive,- that is when it is sought selfishly...