Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question of preserving intercollegiate contests, they consider the advisability of eliminating the minor sports in that respect. Is it the desire of the Faculty that, contrary to their former broad principles, they wish to confine interest in athletics to a few sports? Is this not a narrow, selfish policy? Perhaps they believe that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop and it can only be done by gradually working the one out of the other...
...participation in a hard athletic season is no excuse for an extended tour of recuperation. The opportunity is seized merely as an easy chance for a vacation, the uselessness of which is already realized by many of our most active athletic competitors. It is high time to give up selfish motives in the interest of our athletics. A few years of strict attention to duty will create a lasting precedent against a practice that is causing perfectly legitimate complaint...
...reason why they will not. They were taken on the University squad partly to be tried out, but chiefly to be given a chance to get some coaching before the class crews came out. This kind of spirit of only rowing on one of the two University crews is selfish and disgraceful. It is a bad example to the younger oarsmen; and it will not help the University crew to win against Yale this year or in future years. JOHN RICHARDSON...
...right direction, material prosperity will result, but if it goes wrong, it is a leech upon the business element. The tremendous tide of public opinion, which is always prevalent, must be controlled and sent in safe and conservative channels. As material and moral welfare go hand in hand, no selfish plan is desirable, for on the welfare of the individual depends the welfare...
...part; but life at Harvard means more to us than the mere study, for which primarily we have come to Cambridge. It means four years of active competition with men of our own age and tastes; competition in any one of a hundred branches of endeavor; competition that is selfish in part, but in the end binds us the more closely to the men with whom we must compete. It means, further, four years of life in a world of our own, bringing pleasures, disappointments, victories and defeats...