Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee is an organization of from twelve to fifteen students, whose purpose is to direct the charitable and philanthropic work which is carried on during the year by undergraduates. Its work has been very successful and has done much to disprove the charge of Harvard self-sufficiency and indifference. Certainly no one who knows of its work can believe that Harvard men are indifferent to the needs and suffering of their less fortunate neighbors. It has been estimated that last year one man in every eight was engaged in some philanthropic work. The percentage is gratifyingly large, but there...
...large responsibility rests on the debating clubs in this work of preparation. For it is they who arrange for the contests, conduct the trials, and hold the weekly meetings which give training to the future debaters. But these self-imposed duties of the clubs, which they have so well performed in the past, are like a sail without wind if the clubs carry on the work alone. The greater responsibility rests upon the individuals in the student body. It is they who must arouse a live interest in debating and make the work of the debating clubs effective by attending...
This Christlike conception can most fifly be applied to the life of today. All those professions are religious which are spent in the service of man, and those are secular which are spent in the service of self. Nothing is more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most...
...forest, all have to be made serviceable through commerce. The function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
...debts which can never be paid except in respect, admiration and loving remembrance. We owe them the demonstration that out of the hideous losses and horrors of war, as out of pestilences, famines, shipwrecks, conflagrations and the blastings of the tornado, noble souls can pluck glorious fruits of self-sacrifice and moral sublimity. And further, we owe them a great uplifting of our country in dignity, strength and security...