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If this is followed to its logical conclusion, Harvard will undergo nothing short of total self-renunciation.

The first condition of all really great moral excellence is a spirit of genuine self-sacrifice and self-renunciation.

"Far be it from me to belittle them who recognized their hard and repulsive duty in the plague last winter, and performed it with utter self-renunciation," said Stephen Hopkins.

“By hope and faith and charity, and the sublime doctrine of self-renunciation, all will yet come right, my father.”

The least act of pure self-renunciation hallows, for the moment, all within its sphere.