Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final scheme for a constructive solution has been advanced. One policy alone seems fairly definite in the minds of the reformers, that the clubs as self-electing close corporations shall be abolished, and a thoroughly democratic system substituted in their place. In this way they hope to establish a wider basis for fellowship, where all men will meet on an equal basis, regardless of their social position and personal characteristics and build up a more wholesome social structure...
...self-constituted committee of American publicists and educators which has devoted a year and a half to careful study of Mexican affairs has at length published a report recommending the establishment of an American college in Mexico, similar in scope and aim to Roberts College in Constantinople. It is generally agreed that the regeneration of Mexico awaits the appearance of trained and competent leaders. Such a college with a faculty of skilled and devoted American instructors and directed to the "training of future leaders in Mexico in a spirit of sacrifice and devotion to the best interests of the country...
...goal which his philosophy accepts. I can see no logical mid-points between private egoism and devotion to the human common-wealth. Suppose the latter is chosen. Then right is action towards this goal. And retaliation is right when and when only it carries man forward. Whenever self-assertion against a molestor only makes matters worse for the community, the injured individual ought to submit and swallow his humiliation cheerfully. Gradually it was realized that self-help tended rather to aggravate disorder and injustice, rather than to prevent it, and now we sanction self-help in only those few situations...
PRINCETON, N. J., February 22, 1917.--The Poe Cup, the reward for "loyalty and devotion to Princeton's football interests, courage, manliness, self control and modesty, perseverance and determination under discouraging conditions, observance of the rules of the game and fairness toward opponents" has been awarded to Alfred Gottlieb Gennert '17 of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Gennert, who prepared at Exeter, was center on the Princeton eleven for three years...
...name of civilization. In other words, our joining the war is one more loss to the cause of peace, one more concession to legalized murder for the sake of an issue which is clear only to the ignorant. War for humanity?--For prestige, perhaps, which will benefit our national self-esteem; or for rights, as a mere matter of form; but never for humanity. WILLIAM B. SOUTHWORTH...