Word: selfishnesses
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...Smith, headmaster of the Beaver Country Day in Chestnut Hill, will discuss "Private Secondary Education in a Democracy". In the Inglis Lecture for 1930 Professor Thomas H. Briggs launched an attack on the private schools as selfish and having no place in the educational system. Dr. Briggs will speak on the subject from the standpoint of one associated with progressive education in the private-school field...
...character, he presents a most convincing picture of the master gambler who, without ballyhoo and outward arrogance, holds in subjection all the forces of New York's gambling racket. The minor characters, Kay Francis as the gambler's wife, and Regis Toomey who takes the part of the selfish younger brother are admirably cast...
...political axe has fallen upon me as City Manager of Sacramento. It has been a great fight with intrenched political forces in this old '49 city and those who wish to manipulate the City administration for selfish gain. The old, old story. . . . The office of City Manager, nor I as Manager, were not campaign issues at any time. Despite the fact, members of the Executive campaign committee of the successful Unity Ticket have received appointments as City Treasurer and City Manager...
...plan. But it should be remembered that not only those who are inspired by personal advantage but also a far larger number from the rank and, file oppose the plan. These latter have no college fame to preserve by clinging to the old order, nor are they necessarily selfish in their disapproval of the quadrangle plan. The accusation that only insincerity and selfishness on the part of a few have prompted criticism of the quadrangle plan would seem as groundless in the case of Yale as it would have been last year in that of Harvard...
...friendly hands across the sea has too often been used to cover a new armament program to arouse boundless enthusiasm now. Personal contact and friendship, if confined to educational circles alone, has not in the past and probably will not in the future shake the foundations of petty and selfish patriotism. Nevertheless, while supposedly enlightened nations are busily engaged in determining the size of future engines of destruction, these voices from Geneva are worthy of recognition and at least a tempered skepticism...