Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were opened, and the seats were filled! Grand as the sight of such rapid movements of an audience might be, we find it hard to understand why those who are managing the lectures care to sacrifice the comfort of the audiences and the value of the lectures to a selfish desire to see a solid column of humanity crowd itself in a room not at all capable of receiving it. Sever 11, with the poor lights, limited space, and hard seats, is no place for such lectures as Judge Holmes and Dr. Brooks have given. If none but Cambridge people...
...make such a feeling possible, it is necessary to use some traditional form of prayers, the older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest...
...make, and it is certainly for a man's good to see that he is not even able to make it. The library is used, and we regret to say, abused also, - but here we are getting on to old theme of complaints, and as visions of petitions, of selfish and noisy men in the reading-room, and of electric lights, et cetera, et cetera, come upon us, we lay aside our pen, and permit ourselves for once, at least, to think of what the library is, not of what it might...
...position that the Germans take is a peculiar one, namely, that a man should have a living at least while pursuing any branch of learning, even though the benefits of the education are entirely selfish ones. It is their way of "elevating the masses," and a futile and often disastrous way it is, too. There are earnest attempts among many of the students to support themselves honestly while studying, some even in Vienna, working as night street-sweepers. Nothing derogatory can be said of this class, for there is only a matter of choice between street-sweeping and waiting...
...without doubt thoughtless of the rights of others, rather than deliberate disturbers of the college peace. Thoughtlessness, however, is no excuse. Protests have been made so that now everyone must know that he is committing a theft when he deprives others of rights belonging to all, by this selfish pilfering. A few lessons in criminal law would not be out of place to those who are guilty of this abuse...