Word: self
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...different from thine old self, when once more...
...success of the meeting of the H. A. A. last Saturday well illustrates a point we have always urged, - that a little training and self-denial will accomplish a great deal in athletics in a comparatively short time. We do not speak of the meeting as an unqualified success, for the entries were far too scanty, and some of the times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better...
...alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply...
...held the most responsible position on the crew. His own carelessness and disregard of duty, though not contagious, disgusted and disheartened the men, and fitted them for anything but hard work. Races worth winning cannot be won without a vast amount of conscientious work and self-denial. This is a platitude, we know; but it is a very important one in boat-racing...
...under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where, during a youth of high endeavor and unceasing industry and self-sacrifice, they laid sure and deep the foundations of that world-wide fame which now reflects such honor upon the University which sent them forth, I naturally am deeply moved...