Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writings and insidious speeches and insidious advertisements describing timidity as "good will towards men" and extolling cowardice by christening it "humanity." Let every Harvard man who loves his country join resolutely in frowning Mr. Bryan down. Our captain is lining up his men and nerving them to courage and self-sacrifice. Heaven grant that no intermeddling politician disguised as a saint may in the name of our mothers and our children be permitted to appeal to mankind's overmastering instinct of self-preservation and love of self-indulgence...
After knowledge of self, knowledge of others is the first necessity of wisdom. Theories of life on Mars, knowledge of the eighty elements, an ability to quote extensively from Hamlet, or to write free verse, will in no way make up for this most fundamental sort of wisdom...
Plans are being carefully drawn up whereby the men of the University may prepare themselves most efficiently in a military way for their country's service. Preparation does not predicate war. On the contrary it looks clearly, with no false prejudice, at the future. The self-hypnotism which causes a man to believe that what he does not want will never happen is akin to destruction. The future does not hold in store the peace we wish, but the war Germany may possibly provoke...
...either case it is not sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray...
...love their liberty so much that they are willing to give liberty to others as well as claim it for themselves; . . . men who, upon the basis of plain, practical and sensible hard work in the ordinary affairs of life, carry ever a noble idealism and a sincere capacity for self-devotion...