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...whole, the current Advocate is one of which the editors may be proud, and in which the reader may find profit as well as pleasure...
...Harvard Medical School, established this year at Shanghai, China, has opened an office in Brooks House for the administration of home affairs. The school, now in its first year, has already fourteen Chinese students who know enough English to profit by the instruction. There are six trained instructors at the school and this number will be increased as the enrollment grows...
...immigrant attends, boys' clubs designed for the benefit of young and lively Americans, and settlements in various localities, all need teachers and directors. By assuming positions in these various schools and settlements Harvard men may do great service and work incalculable benefits. All men who have time should profit by this opportunity for service and undertake some form of social service work...
...manage it himself; and a man who manages the property of others ought to do so with as large a sense of moral obligation as if it were his own. This may seem a paradox, but it is not. The temptation to be selfish for one's own profit is stronger, but for a good man it is easier to resist, than the temptation to be selfish in acting for the benefit of others. I am not speaking to bad men, to dishonest men, or men of hard selfishness; but to honest, upright and large-hearted men, who mean...
...world, but no one began by reforming himself. Great moral improvements come from the conviction of moral obligation rather than from outside forces stimulated by selfish motives. Let no one think that he can manage property rightly with the utmost benefit to himself, or the last farthing of immediate profit to his fiduciaries. Let him not try to square his obligations wholly with his interests. Duty in every relation in life involves some sacrifice, or it would have no moral significance. It would be nothing but a highly intelligent selfishness. If you are not prepared for sacrifice...