Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...final conclusion is that the three-year course would be bad for the students, because it would require them to divide their attention between too many subjects at one time, and to require them to spend a larger portion of their time in the class-room with less self-sustained work. To change from a four-year to a three-year course, without alteration in the amount of work, would be "bad for the reputation of the College, because it would set up a pretension that the Harvard A.B. had not been lowered by the change to a three-year...
...hard one, but it is only by this battle and the victory, that we may come in touch with the Living God. One of the most common of these temptations is impurity, in mind, body or imagination. It is a sin whose wages are death to success, to self-respect, to reputation, death to mind and body...
...Maccabees and the like go side by side with and are constantly striving against the unworld-liness and angelic virtues of Hoses, Amos and the other inspired prophets. The three chief characteristics of the Hebrew nation were an extreme sensitiveness in matters of religion, a tenacity of self-preservation, and a practical tendency which found expression in the belief that works were more important than the faith, as the works implied the faith...
Hawthorne's visit to the Berkshires in 1838 marked the turning point of his career. Contact with the rough, hearty mountaineers and frontiersmen brought to him for almost the first time a realization of other men and other lives, and with this experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might...
...dying. In the moral fights of earth, Paul called the disciples of Christ to be "more than conquerors." He called them to conquer temptation and to be more sympathetic and more ready to help because they had succeeded; he called them to suffer and to be more patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered; he called them to forgive and be more ready to forgive again. In close and terrible temptations it is not victory alone, not the mere overcoming of the powers of sin that he asks, but he holds before them the lofty ideal that beyond...