Word: selfishnesses
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...rate let us hope that Harvard will not be so selfish as to let Memorial Hall remain unused, or even to use it herself, but let us hope it will be devoted to some noble cause quite outside the harness academic circle. John Reed Walden...
...thoughtful students of international affairs, the opium question is an accurate gauge of the existing degree of international-mindedness. If the powers cannot forego their petty advantages to wipe out a universally recognized menace, the hope for international cooperation is ludicrous. If the inherently selfish aspects of nationalism can in this one case he overcome by a feeling of community of need and action, hopes of the League and of all internationalists will rise. Eventually the Opium Conference will receive either ignominy for spiking the wheels of the new chariot of internationalism, or high praise for aiding the progress...
That a public library frequented by all classes, should suffer from marauding and mutilation is only to be expected. But that a college library, limited to a supposedly fair-minded group of students, and governed under the fairest rules and with the utmost freedom, should be victimized by utterly selfish abusers of privilege, lascivious commentators and petty thieves is an insult to the spirit of the University...
...decline. My reason for believing that this was the case was that the ever increasing interest in Economics was gradually replacing the study of Art and the Classics in our Universities. I believed this to be a symptom of decay because Economics is in general studied with the selfish and mercenary object in mind of being able to make money more efficiently, while Art and the Classics are generally studied because of a disinterested love for knowledge. When avarice and selfishness begin to be dominant in any institution: state, church or university, that institution invariably enters upon its decline...
...narrative argues that the murder is admissible because the strong, silent one had no selfish motive. The fake is the father. As played by the suavely English Mr. Tearle and by Orlando Daly, these parts protrude above the pleasant capabilities of a British cast...