Word: unselfishness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college or are in close touch with college affairs, Mr. Newell's death in particular, by its very suddenness and the horror of its form, is a calamity hard to realize and accept. His unselfish service to the University, continued without interruption after his graduation, taught successive classes of undergraduates to admire and respect him as a pattern of all that is best in the athletic side of college life, while his breadth of character, and his quiet, steady success in other fields, gave great promise of a useful career in the future...
...until he can accomplish something for the common good. The opportunities are endless. For those who can not be athletes there are still debating, the college papers, and many other fields, where individual effort betters not alone the individual but also the college itself. And in this unselfish effort, this work side by side with others working for the same end, lies one of the grandest broadening influences of Harvard University...
...have a crew which is by common consent the strongest in years, why discourage their work by telling them beforehand that you do not expect them to win; that it would nothing short of marvellous if they did? They have a right to expect, in return for their hard, unselfish work, the implicit confidence of the University, and this, it seems to me, your editorial fails to give...
...such unselfish, self-sacrificing efforts in the aid of the less fortunate part of society by the Sailor Mission, the Student Volunteer Committee, the Prospect Union, and lesser organizations and by individuals in Harvard, that makes the University an important factor in charitable and philanthropic work and the college man a broad minded citizen, bent not only on his own advancement but on the uplifting of society at large...
Resolved, That on behalf of the Harvard Divinity School we give forth this expression of our grief and sense of loss in the departure of our brother, and trust that his sterling worth and strong moral character may be an inspiration to courageous living and unselfish service to all who have known...