Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enemy of that nation surpasses any people in history in deceit, insolence and violence, there is only one course left to follow. It is folly for that nation to treat these prowling, scheming marauders in any mild, milk-and-water manner. It is more than folly, it is self-destruction. Death is the traditional and just fate of proved spies...
...entire nation, and not of any one class or group of citizens," said N. P. Hallowell '97, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee of New England, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "Take this committee as an example. We are here offering our services--a practically self-appointed committee--advocating the sale of Liberty Bonds, yet there is no more reason for our being here than for any or all of you men out at Cambridge doing the same thing. All of the people of this nation must volunteer to buy the bonds and promote the sale of them...
...place on alternate evenings this week and next, has chosen as his general subject, "The Living Christ and Some Problems of Today." His subtopic for this evening is. "The Vitality of the Religious Sentiment." Succeeding talks will deal with; (2) The Availability of God; (3) Aims that End in Self and Endless Aims; (4) Christ's Goal for Humanity; (5) The Christianity of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; (6) The Place of Christ in the Modern World. All six lectures will be open to the public...
...prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that military and economic warfare can be averted in the future by the development of the instinct of self-assertion and self-advancement in the individual or in the group? I do not. It is not gushy sentimentalism or flat self-abnegation that I advocate; backsliding of the individual or unwarranted self-humiliation have no part in my theme. What I should like to see in our schools...
...will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...