Word: selfish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undesirable citizen and a liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class; in the latter he is forming a habit which will eventually depreciate him in the eyes of all good citizens when, perforce, he becomes a member of the body politic...
...latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given to the claims which the students have upon the time and attention of the professors, for especially do the upperclassmen suffer a loss, which they cannot make good later...
...importance. No nation cradled, as America was cradled, in idealism can afford to neglect the demands of trusteeship. The League of Nations calls upon her to be one of the guarantors of European civilization. She would be assuredly unworthy of her origins if she sacrificed that duty to selfish and possibly non-existent claims of her private interest...
...little the members of 1922 appreciate the educational value of these competitions and the exceptional opportunities they afford of getting in touch with the members of the class. A man who spends all his time on his studies never gets outside his own narrow sphere. His occupations are personal, selfish ones and he has no interest either in his own class or in the university. The experience of management cultivates his executive ability and broadens his viewpoint. For the first time he becomes aware of the prominent part which college activities play in the life of the university, and realizes...
Despite this remarkable progress, there still exists a group of selfish and contemptible individuals who will forever place their own interests before the interests of humanity,--who, in other words, have not read the "signs of the times". Such persons will be given little recognition, if any, at the coming peace conference...