Word: unselfishness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the Class of '78 of Harvard College, sincerely mourn the sudden death of our classmate Melvin Hasbrouck, as taking from our number one who was not merely a pleasant and genial companion, but a noble-hearted friend, whose generous and thoroughly unselfish nature may well serve us as an inspiration and an example...
...rather interesting, when one has nothing else to do, to look over the archives of one of the college papers, and see what the undergraduate mind is at times capable of producing. As we have always been of an unselfish nature, we think it is but fair to give our readers a share of the pleasure we experience in opening such contributions as these we have selected...
...exercise of tact by individuals, or of policy by corporations, be an unselfish...
...recall without a glow of affectionate admiration the manly endurance and patience, never in one thoughtless moment laid aside, with which he bore the pain of a long and distressing illness. His tastes and habits were those of a scholar, but he had a singular loyalty for and unselfish interest in all that concerned the College and his fellow-students. On the last day of his college life, in May, 1872 (the day which ended for him a long struggle between love of his work and associations here, on the one hand, and constantly increasing suffering on the other...
...well described it. In almost every chapter he has written there are sentiments as far removed from cynicism as is the most earnest and modest charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly or unselfish trait in his character, it is that which Thackeray dwells upon, which excites his enthusiasm. Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple...