Word: self
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debate announced for this evening has been postponed and the following debate substituted: "Resolved, That Hawaii should be annexed to the United States as a self-governing territory, provided that it be admitted to statehood only by the consent of all the states." The speakers for the affirmative are S. B. Fay Gr., and B. R. Robinson '98; for the negative. R. T. Parke '98 and R. Stout...
...behalf of the class of '94, we wish to extend to his parents and his friends our sympathy with them in their bereavement, believing that it is such a life as his, a life of resolute though unapplauded self-sacrifice, which brings real honor to Harvard...
...large space would be of great advantage in executing the exercises, and in allowing unlimited seats at lower price. The four trees would make the scheme self-working. It would do away with combinations and the success of the rush would not depend upon the honor of four hundred students as the modified rush about the old tree does...
...Cambridge people who attend the public lectures at the Fogg Museum have not the self-respect to keep out of the seats which are reserved for students, some more effectual method of keeping them out than that of simply marking the seats reserved ought to be resorted...
...perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt with the present sharp intercollegiate rivalry and the strong desire to win, many would dislike to see the suggestions in the Report carried out to the full...