Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Christian Association. Denying Self. Mr. W. S. Archibald 1903. Phillips Brooks House...
...true sense. I want its light of liberty to shine around the world. I want its flag to be loved; and all people to bow down and turn their faces toward it, and thank God that there is one flag which stands for human rights and the doctrine of self government...
...teams or crews, where the strain is most severe, men do not try for them for their health, but to "make" the team, and for the honor and advancement to be gained thereby. And this is certainly worth some risk, as are also the lessons of experience and self-denial, and the spirit of co-operation, that must be learned. In the matter of health alone I think it open to grave doubt, as to whether the men who actually take part in the most strenuous of our sports, would not be the better if the strain was somewhat less...
...Twilight of the Race," for example, the elaborate simplicity in many places approaches the absurd, for it seems studied, not natural. The best work in the book is at the end, in the "Lyrics of a Life." Some of these are not unmusical, and they show fewer signs of self consciousness than the more pretentious efforts...
...then shall Christ's teaching of lavishness apply to the lives of men? Here and there is a man who bends his concentrated energies in utter self-absorption to some one task of his own, to the accomplishing of some purpose, to the achievement of reputation and renown; and often he accomplishes his task only to find that the prize he has grasped has turned to ashes in his hand, that in gaining an object he has lost the sweetness of life, that in winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place...