Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
...many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly solvent graduate with a demand for unpaid arrears of tuition, and then proceed to the more abstract obligations of college loyalty, pupilliary gratitude, and enlightened self-interest...
...vein of paradox is glimpsed beneath these suggestions, it should not blind us to their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...today the University team will meet Boston College in the Stadium in a game which promises to be more close than that of last Saturday, as the Boston team has already beaten the fighting team from the U. S. S. Utah 22-0. The game will also be of interest as a contest between Boston's open system of play and the closed system of Coach Fisher, and between the punting strength of R. Horween Occ. and Captain Fitzpatrick of Boston College, both users of the Brickley system. Much professional interest is taken in the result of Boston's surprise...
...extremely interesting collection of illuminated French manuscripts will be on exhibition, starting today, in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. Although this exhibition is primarily on view for Mr. Sach's class in French, it should be of interest to the University as a whole...