Word: selfishnesses
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...whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they get. And the only way will be through raising their salaries-not to a mere living wage, but to several times their present level...
...There can be little doubt that most private schools have been established for the purpose of serving narrowly personal and largely selfish interests," was the comment of Professor F. T. Spaulding '17. Associate Professor of Education, when asked yesterday for his reaction to the statement, "Private schools are neither needed nor justifiable in a democracy," made Thursday evening by Dr. T. H. Briggs, Inglis Lecturer...
...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps for his readers the visitation of the military may have a different effect, but in any case the occasion is a red-letter day in the Harvard calendar and the Vagabond welcomes to-day's visitors with a sincere, if somewhat selfish, greeting...
...tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...