Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during the trip and after it, but there are a great many who object to needless and selfish extravagance. There seems to be a disposition in glee club circles to regard it as merely a favor that the club gives anything to the crew, or gives a concert for its benefit. It is hardly necessary to point out to the officers of the glee club that it would...
...pleasant thing to talk about seeing that every man in college is provided with one seat. But half the men in college don't want to be provided with one seat, they want enough seats to be able to take their friends, and they are just selfish enough to be satisfied with nothing else. Moreover, the responsibility of 'varsity managers is not to the undergraduates alone, but to the graduates. One of the mistakes of this year's management is that it has considered the graduates too little. We grumble because we did not get better tickets and more...
...Social Stages" are two sketches, bright, natural and vivacious. Two pictures are given us, - of the enthusiastic, ideal-loving, lero-worshipping youth of twenty-one, and his ideas upon things in general - and of this same being become a man of twenty-five, cynical, fearlessly and honestly mundane and selfish, in theory and in practice, - who prefers his own real advantage to deference to a sentimentality that seems to him absurd...
...certainly is an evil. What is the cause of pain in animals? There must have been some interference with the work of the Creative reason. We cannot see all the causes of that interference, but man is one pain-producing cause. Unless the Supreme Reason caused the cruel, heedless, selfish thoughts in man, it is not responsible for the hideous pains which man inflicts. Once more then we are driven to the study of man, to see how it is that he can interfere with nature to produce ugliness and pain, or beauty and pleasure...
...seems but natural, however, that men coming here from other colleges should approve a change which would necessarily develope the graduate school; for it is these men especially whom the graduate school would benefit. We mean by this, not that these graduate students are greatly influenced by any merely selfish views, but that in their work they have been led to the belief that the great work for the University in the future is to lie in the graduate departments...