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...good of the community as being, like himself, ministers of Christ. He should be the friend of all, and bind together in Christian service, first, his own people, and then, as far as possible, all other Christian bodies, and all who have influence amongst their fellow men, in unselfish action, which may reach wider and wider circles in the nation and the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Noble Lecture. | 12/11/1900 | See Source »

TRUTH A SIMPLE UNSELFISH...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newell Gate Inscription | 5/7/1900 | See Source »

...treats a phase of life which to many is entirely new. He tells of the social conditions and customs at Panape, one of the Ladrone Islands in the Pacific. His story is not skillfully written, but is vigorous and full of life. The plot deals with the passionate and unselfish love of a native woman for a white adventurer. The story was, perhaps, inspired by Kipling's "Without Benefit of Clergy," but the author's development of the idea has many original merits. "A Circus Madonna," by Murray Seasongood '00 is a feeble attempt at delineation of character. "Mary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/25/1900 | See Source »

...college or are in close touch with college affairs, Mr. Newell's death in particular, by its very suddenness and the horror of its form, is a calamity hard to realize and accept. His unselfish service to the University, continued without interruption after his graduation, taught successive classes of undergraduates to admire and respect him as a pattern of all that is best in the athletic side of college life, while his breadth of character, and his quiet, steady success in other fields, gave great promise of a useful career in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/3/1898 | See Source »

...until he can accomplish something for the common good. The opportunities are endless. For those who can not be athletes there are still debating, the college papers, and many other fields, where individual effort betters not alone the individual but also the college itself. And in this unselfish effort, this work side by side with others working for the same end, lies one of the grandest broadening influences of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/5/1897 | See Source »

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