Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manner in which students leave the reserved books lying around in the different alcoves, instead of returning them to their proper shelves. It may be through carelessness that a student takes a book to the most remote alcove and leaves it there, but it looks very like a selfish attempt to conceal the book for future...
...selfish goddess, beautiful but dread...
...drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we possess. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect for them to wish to have them associated with us in our college course. Many examples of the success of co-education have been quoted; but it has had some results which are not so satisfactory...
...boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew was in practice. I might have kept the secret in New Haven if I wished, as Keart could have built us, and can build, a good cedar eight. But what is the use of being selfish? What I have done has improved boating, and I am glad...
Freedom of action does not seem to be allowed at Rutgers, to judge from the Targum's indignation at a "certain secret society" whose members have all refused to renew their subscriptions to that estimable contemporary of ours. Their action is called "almost incredible," "a boyish trick," "an exceedingly selfish action," and various other pretty names. The reason of the withdrawal, according to the Targum, is "disappointment at the non-election of a friend." We warn all our subscribers, that as soon as one of them withdraws, we shall take a leaf out of the Targum's book...