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...treasurer of the Princeton Football Association shows in his accounts a total expenditure of $1,912.04. The association has been self-supporting, having collected no subscriptions whatever...
...that the creature realizes the existence of anything outside itself. In higher forms we discern the germ of the nervous system, and later, a keen appreciation of the outer world. But no trace is visible of sympathy, ("the going out of the mind into fields of life beyond it self"), until we reach those animals in which the sexes are distinguished. The sexual and parental instinct is the beginning of sympathy. In the lower forms in which this instinct is distinguished, it is but momentary, and the offspring is self-supporting from the first. As we ascend...
...Self-consciousness is peculiar to man. It results in a sense of loneliness, and in the realization of sin. It may be escaped by liquor or opium, sinking the man to the animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that...
...afraid the department in question is hardly an exception. The supporters of modern languages at Harvard should see to it that they have something to offer in place of the instruction they wish to do away with. A comparison between our Greek and German departments could hardly assist the self-called "party of progress," and we are afraid this hold is true to a large extent in the schools...
...English speech models in his own literature of every kind of excellence?' As before, it is not on any weak pleadings of my own that I rely for convincing the gain-sayers; it is on the constitution of human nature itself, and on the instinct of self-preservation in humanity. The instinct for beauty is set in human nature, as surely as the instinct for knowledge is set there, or the instinct for conduct, or the instinct for society. If the instinct for beauty is served by Greek literature as it is served by no other literature, we may trust...