Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution of the means of consumption is desirable. Self-interest and intelligence are the most prevalent useful qualities in human nature; the former should be used to impel, and the latter to direct, human conduct to the end of utility. Anarchy is a false view of liberty, oligarchy seeks the happiness of only a few, while democracy...
Individual competition has done more than anything else to make the nation what it is. Socialism is self-contradictory and opposed to deep-rooted and ineradicable human instincts. If everything is accessible to all, why should man strive for something that will not be remunerative to him? Each is proud of his own skill, knowledge, and ability. Socialism in the United States would drive those of superior qualities out of the country, to where such qualities would have a free chance...
...hampered by injuries to the regular players, the team has developed steadily and consistently until now it has at least and even chance in the big game. We believe in the determination and ability of the players--every man of them--and it remains only to strengthen their self-reliance and make them feel that the University is behind them. The existence of this attitude cannot be doubted, but whether it is brought home to the team, or not, depends upon the turn-out today for the mass meeting and parade--the last chance we shall have...
...judge by the size of the Freshman parade to Soldiers Field yesterday, football enthusiasm and class loyalty are still dormant in the members of 1913. The class will never have a better test of its mettle than this afternoon, for it will mean a sacrifice of self-interest to stand on the side-lines of the Freshman field while the University game is being played. But the first duty of Freshmen is to their class team, and enthusiastic support this afternoon will double the chances of victory...
...emotion that gradually becomes actual human love. Rachel throws over Richard, her betrothed, who challenges Ravensbane to a duel. In the third act, as the climax of a series of scenes, humorous on the surface, yet large with tragic significance, Ravensbane is suddenly confronted with his scarecrow self, in the the glass of Truth. At the beginning of the fourth act, he is found in the deepest agonies of despair, for his kindled spirit revolts at sight of himself, as he really is. He at last recognizes the fiend in Dickon, revolts from his tutelage, breaks the pipe whose smoke...