Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Self-Sacrifice Always His Watchword...
...point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South need Harvard. To encourage this intercourse, no new machinery is necessary. All that is needed is energy on the part of the Harvard Clubs. These clubs should not be mere self-sustaining friendship circles. They should be advance agents for a house that has the finest line of goods to be offered in this country. When this is realized, the University will have taken the first great step toward fulfilling the national need of college education...
...generous offer made and carried out in December. 1916? Through two strenuous and memorable years the work of General Hospital 22, the largest hospital unit serving with the British Army, has held a record for skilful and untiring treatment of our wounded. The memory of so much service and self sacrifice can ever pass from us; it will be cherished in perpetuity by the relatives and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such admirable devotion...
...being widely argued in the United States that this country can have no interest in such a league. Since America is economically self-sustaining, she is urged not to pledge her resources to repair the evil consequences of other peoples' mistakes; and it is suggested that the derogation of her sovereignty implied in submission to the League is a permanent source of danger...
...affectation, and intolerance for everything not moulded in our accustomed forms. If we believe this we should not be here now. If we were not firmly convinced that our ideals pointed to a healthy democracy, that our plan of life offered an ever-increasing opportunity to each individual for self-realization we could hardly have built up the faith that carries us onward. We are therefore thankful that we had the facilities to offer the Radio School and the Ensign School, that other men might come here and form a fairer estimate of our way of living...