Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Government management would necessarily be inferior: (a) It is proverbially loose and sluggish; the incentive of self-interest is lacking. (b) Political experience makes it improbable that as able managers would be obtained. (c) It is apt to be influenced by senti...
...defeats which Harvard has sustained has logically produced as much effect in one direction as the line of victories has for Yale in another. Against the discouraging influence of these defeats Harvard has worked away with a will and the only thing she has lost is the game; her self respect and the respect of the outside world she certainly has not lost. With the same feeling as if Harvard had won we heartily congratulate Captain Waters and his men on their pluck and on the manly way in which they strove at least to win. There is a sort...
...often to be discovered from outside; men who have much ability in running or jumping often are not themseves conscious of their ability and consequently take no part in athletics. In this, as in everything else, good material should not be allowed to waste away from lack of self-assertion, or fear of competition. Whatever the cause of the small number of entries, the games did credit to the freshman class...
...member did for every other-that no one should do any favor or kindness without insisting on a full return. Under such a system life would be perfectly impossible. So in every form of life we find that a law of selfishness, that is a life without love or self-sacrifice will be intolerable. But the law of love, to give freely to all of our best, makes life what it should be. Without love no life what it should be. Without love no life at all can exist. Sin is only a form of selfishness, and here we have...
Check or money order and self directed and stamped envelope must accompany each order. Tickets will be sent by registered mail if postage stamps to the amount of twelve cents are put on the self directed envelope...