Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Calhoun, Captain of Yale Nine-Dear Sir: I enclose a letter signed by the captain and manager of the Harvard University Base Ball club which is self-explanatory. In consequence of our withdrawal I hereby resign my position as secretary of the college league. Will you kindly read this and the enclosed letter at the meeting next Saturday. I will send my report tomorrow morning to you, and you will do me a great favor by reading that also. Yours truly, J. C. MCCOY...
...hurts athletics in general, it hurts each delinquent organization in particular to have victorious teams go unrewarded. If men do not receive the trophies promised them they are bound to be dissatisfied and to refuse their hearty cooperation in athletics in the future. It will be a move in self-defence, therefore, for the associations to fulfil their obligations...
...activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere so many new and inspiring ideas that he becomes for a time lost to his former self and forgets in the revelation of the world the duties which bind him to his home. Like the Savior, many a young man finds himself shaken in his reverie by a call to retire from the broad life of the university and go back into the common place...
...arrangements are excellent, the small basement rooms being better lighted than most of the college buildings. The heating and ventilating system is perfect; in the cellar an enormous fan changes the air in every room in the building once in ten minutes, while the electric system makes the temperature self-regulating...
...presence. We can stand in the presence of God by "standing in the way of his commandments." Dr. Brooks spoke of the habit of making good resolves at this season of the year. Let all things be done in the love of God instead of love of self. Let us make our resolutions to enter upon a new life of religion and of love rather than merely to break off some habit or fault. The choir sang, "Doth not Wisdom Cry," by Haking, and "Our Soul in God with Patience Wait," by Garret...