Word: unselfishly
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...unprofitable and certainly very agreeable position after graduation of having acquaintanceships with men, some of whom will rise to prominence, in foreign lands. This is a selfish reason. A consideration of the situation the American would be in if he were studying in Berlin may suggest unselfish ones. The foreigner himself would, of course, gain a better knowledge of Americans, and he would return to Europe a true friend of the University...
...Unselfish Service to Others...
...both who were in no way superior to him in ability or character, like his arch-enemy Benjamin F. Butler, but 'the wise years decide.' Weighed in the true scales could any fortune, however large, or any office, however high, could anything that he won for himself outbalance the unselfish service which he rendered to others? Is self-sacrifice failure? Shall we measure success by what a man gets, or by what he gives? Shall we forget the immortal words 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto...
...French Front," and Mr. Cutler gives some illuminating matter relating to the ambulance work undertaken by the University medical units. There is ample proof contained in "War Notes" that Harvard men have worked and fought, and some have died, upon European battlefields; and that honorable and unselfish service has been rendered...
...master Speaks," by "Fughet to ", the old but ever-to-be-repeated lessons of unselfish devotion to high artistic ideals, and of Stern self-criticism, as indispensable to the achievement of anything of enduring value, are worked up in an agreeably fanciful manner. But where did "Rodney" get his idea that in the age of Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists--men were "unsophisticated...