Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where are the books in the reading rooms going? Faster and faster the volumes of prescribed reading are disappearing from the shelves in Massachusetts Hall. It is useless to preach here upon the pettiness of such theft; the men who are selfish enough and small enough to purloin the books are beyond the reach of exhortation. But in the interests of the Library and of future students in these courses, the kleptomaniacs are asked to return them, at least after the examinations for which they were borrowed are over. Undoubtedly the library authorities will receive them thankfully with "no questions...
...undergraduate world, and many will undoubtedly take advantage of this last public opportunity to honor athletes who thoroughly deserve all praise. Now, there are a number of ways of doing honor to our team, and one of the most objectionable ones is, so to speak, eating to them. The selfish way of loking at this dinner is not the spirit in which the football team went into its great game this fall, and we believe that it will appreciate least an over-exuberant reception. Healthy pride leads to healthy praise, which should never be made insincere by violent lapses into...
...confines of the new dormitories "class politics" are likely to be rife. Good fellowship and activity should steer one clear of selfish aims and motives. Create good fellowship among yourselves and do not lay too much emphasis upon making a "club". The latter now belongs in a sphere entirely outside of the life of a first year man. True success is a life well lived and tasks well done. We are looking to the members of the class of 1918 to enter into life here determined to make their class the best that has ever come to Harvard...
...resulting confusion caused many complaints. Now an even more unfortunate condition is coming to light. Men are forging names and resorting to like petty dishonesties to evade the rules of the new system. The new plan of signing for courts is a good one but the men are too selfish to give it a fair trial. If this continues, there will be started a black-list--and men who do not obey the rules governing the courts will be first warned and then placed on this list, a penalty that will cause them to forfeit their right to play...
...Henry Lee Higginson '52, president of the club, made a brief speech on the history of the movement which culminated in the union of Harvard and Technology. In commenting on the affair Major Higginson complimented the two institutions on their "team play" and added "I have never seen a selfish thought, or a selfish thing, any time, any where, in this matter...