Word: unselfishness
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...Yale alumni are to give a complimentary dinner to Captain Robert J. Cook, '76, Yale's most famous oarsman, on February 19, as an expression of their appreciation of his unselfish devotion and valuable service so generously given to the interests of boating at our university. The letter of invitation is signed by fifty-one graduates, among whom are Henry E. Howland '54; Alexander H. Stevens, '54; Mason Young, '60; George A. Adee, '67; Allen W. Evarts, '69; Arthur M. Dodge, '74; Walter C. Camp...
...with great pleasure that we are able to notice editorially the unselfish action of one of our Mott Haven team in the games of Saturday last. In these days of always providing for number one at any cost, actions like that shown in the final heat in the 100-yards dash, stand in deserved prominence. Harvard's victory of the inter-collegiate cup depended on this race, and therefore we should all be doubly gratified to the man who gave up his own chances of success to make the victory of his college secure...
...college pulpit, and each has charmed with his own individuality yet through each address ran a strong exhortation, an appeal fervent and ringing for higher aims and loftier aspirations and the pursuance of that ambition which is the foundation, the fundamental principal of all success, the ambition of unselfish striving after and working for the benefit and amelioration of one's fellow man. It is a remarkable fact that through these three addresses, there runs a spirit of practical Christianity, a desire to impress on those whom they address the need not of dreaming but of work, of work...
...likely, when they have gained their reward and a sinecure annuity to devote themselves to disinterested study. Examinations and original research are incompatible terms. The object of the one is to appear wise, the object of the other to be so. The one is mercenary, the other unselfish. I have known of cases in which men have come to Oxford with a fresh and sympathetic interest in language or history, and have sadly watched it gradually fading under the influences of the examination system, until, by the time their course has been finished, it has disappeared altogether, They have become...
...suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only non-egoistic impulse, and so is the only possible moral principle. Is this, however, true? Is pity or sympathy necessarily unselfish at all? The lecturer pointed out at some length the selfish elements that may be involved in or indissolubly united with the mere emotion...