Word: unselfish
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...last evening on "The Real Indian,"-speaking of his training, ideals, and philosophy of life. From his childhood, said Dr. Eastman, the Indian boy is taught to look up to the Great Mystery, to develop his body, to live a simple life, and to be daring and fearless, yet unselfish. The real Indian despised the great machinery of civilization, considering it a defacement of nature. He mourned equally for his friend and his enemy, and until he had been cheated by the English, taught to use whiskey, and driven from his hunting ground, he showed that he was a firm...
...Kelley '06, the last speaker, urged the new students to do their College work well and to take an unselfish interest in some form of University activity and to go into that with spirit. After the speaking, J. J. Rowe '07, leader of the Glee Club, lead the singing of "Fair Harvard;" and J. D. White '07 lead a long cheer
...eagerly entered are the Glee and Musical Clubs, the entertainment troupes, and the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Harvard is different in its attitude toward this association than are most other colleges toward their philanthropic enterprises. The voluntary membership, which is here entered upon for purely unselfish motives, makes the work as a whole more sincere and effective than at many other colleges. The association is still young and one of you will institute improvements as yet unthought...
...highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength in the struggle for an enlightened, unselfish, elevated national consciousness...
...order that we may not hold the old, worn out, abandoned conceptions, but may gain a rational and vigorous Christianity. In the third place we should reach out to humanity. The unit that thinks must embrace the race. No man has a right to live for himself. Fourth, unselfish living must be applied to our neighbors in need and to the institutions and worthy causes about us which deserve...