Word: selfishnesses
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Fighting for the rights of our citizens, opposing by every means in our power the selfish interests which would exploit them, the present administration of the City of New York has fought continually against higher carfares, higher telephone, electric light and gas rates, and against every attempt of corporations or individuals to gouge the people. Enforcing economy, oposing waste and extravagance, this administration has not denied to the people of New York the necessities required for their welfare and for the growth of the city...
...profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter public life but who dreads being misunderstood or misinterpreted...
...discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom, restrains him from "rescuing" the girl, eloping with her, in the name of Individualism. The mother points out that such revolts, to be satisfactory, must be purely selfish...
...Pound's offer from the University of Wisconsin is a trumpet blast. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that undergraduates await Dean Pound's decision almost as eagerly as the Law Students. . . . Many of these undergraduates plan to enter the Law School themselves and there is, in part, a selfish interest. . . . Undergraduates join the men of the Law School in hoping that Dean Pound will choose scholarship as his portion...
...result no appealing sportsman-like tradition has been evolved. Such men cast aside the ideal of a wellbalancd life, renounce athletics, social service, a hundred activities--even pleasure--for a selfish desire for classroom preeminence, deny the principle of reciprocity, and never once feel that they owe some self sacrificing service to the college which is doing much for them. Is it any wonder that the first and larger group feels some contempt for this type of student and this kind of scholastic activity...