Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amount which we seek is large. It is absolutely necessary in the form of unrestricted funds. The first important need is a 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...
...some satisfactory arrangement can be made some of our leading statesmen tell us that there will be no peace in the world until every nation gives up a part of its sovereignty to the cause of all. Perhaps it would be wiser for them to apply this idea of self-sacrifice to the common good to the action of individuals in order to insure domestic peace - a far more immediate question...
...Prohibition is neither right in principle nor is it Christian in character. Temperance has to do with your control of yourself. It is right. It can be defended. Prohibition has to do with your control by others. It is wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...
...sale of tickets for the baseball game with Yale on Soldiers Field, Wednesday, June 18, will close next Monday at 5 o'clock. All applications must be in before that time. If application is made by mail a stamped, self-addressed envelope must accompany each letter. The price of tickets...
Prussia is complaining because the territory which she has wrested from others, is now being taken from her. Count Rautzau says that West Prussia which has always been a German state, and is predominantly German, should not, according to rights of peoples for self determination, be ceded to the new Poland. One only need look at the facts of population and history to refute this argument. In 1910 the population of West Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia...