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Word: oneself (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...what field effort is most wisely applied is one of the great opportunities offered here. The privileges of the elective system should be used by every student to the utmost, that in life there may be no misapplication of energy through failure to learn how one can best serve oneself and mankind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY RECEPTION | 10/6/1908 | See Source »

...fulfill those duties effectively and satisfactorily for the purposes that the individual is properly to be credited with in the conduct of life. Vocation, in its primitive form, is the duty of life to others, whereby living is made happier for them; and culture is duty of life to oneself, whereby life is made happier for the individual. Professor Kennelly then enlarged upon these points laid down and reached the conclusion that ordinarily vocational training should come last and the higher and final training, the broader and deeper, should be its foundations. But this should not prevent the pupil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Teachers' Ass'n Meeting | 3/4/1907 | See Source »

...present number of the Advocate offers a genial assortment of philosophy, poetry and fiction. The philosophy is given us editorially as well as in a contribution "On the Difficulty of Taking Oneself Seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 1/11/1907 | See Source »

...number, as a whole, is fully up to the average, perhaps above it. "On Taking Oneself Seriously," the criticism of "Debussy," "Freshmen and Philanthropy," and "River Wind," are individual, and well worth while. Unfortunately there is no story so good as some of those we have had lately from K. B. Townsend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 1/11/1907 | See Source »

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