Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...winning team would be possible, he stated, if the men would show a spirit of fight and determination, head-work, co-operation with the captain and coach, and most of all hard and faithful self-denial...
...regret that in certain instances Senator Lodge did not make his position more clear. Although he declared him self in favor of a league he seemed to argue, both directly and by implication, against any league worthy of the name. As President Lowell showed so clearly a League of Nations must include certain minimum stipulations to which the signatories will agree: Senator Lodge seemed to oppose even those minimum stipulations. President Wilson has, by his ill advised action, laid the Covenant of Paris wide open to political attack, and some Republicans though Senator Lodge is of course not among them...
Roulette is a very difficult part for an American to have attempted, and Mr. Edgar Scott does it admirably. His French is charming and he carries off the swagger,--although that is far too strong a word -- of the imposter, with perfect self confidence...
...University. A few men have advocated an energetic effort on the part of the University to enroll men whose homes are in more distant parts of the United States. Such efforts are in my mind very essential to Harvard whose very foundations consist in developing an individual philosophy, self-reliance, and broad-mindedness in her students...
...been made and which have been accentuated through lack of timely preparation, we should be lulled to sleep by sweet sounding pleas for universal peace through a League of Nations, seducing us into a frame of mind where we should feel that we need never again prepare ourselves for self-defense. It may not be in fashion now to speak of Washington or his Farewell Address, and it is true that we have gone far since his words of warning were first spoken, but. Washington said one the thing which will be eternally true so long as nations shall exist...