Word: selfishnesses
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...could not carry away enough flowers for other members of his combination. Moreover, with this every-man-for-himself idea, we believe that the large societies will agree to discontinue combinations, and that attempts to conceal large quantities of flowers will be discountenanced by the class and audience as selfish. With such a plan as this, allowing no chance for a man to be pushed up by some and pulled down by others, there would be no danger of tearing ordinary clothing, or arousing quick tempers. We think that the ill feeling that has at times been shown has arisen...
...wants a reply to the charges that the college man is comparatively selfish and indifferent to those not so fortunate as he, finds a ready and convincing answer in the report of the organization and work of the Student Volunteer Committee, published this morning. The very successful existence of this committee, the Prospect Union and kindred organizations, proves a ready and hearty sympathy in the University with well-directed charitable and philanthrophic movements...
Some of these men, out of rather selfish motives, are no doubt waiting for the Yale debate trials, thinking that that debate is the more important of the two. But it is not. If either of the debates is more important than the other, it is that with Princeton. The more convenient time at which the preparation for the Yale debate will come and the fact that it is the only dual contest Harvard has with Yale will assure large and successful trials. Everything will be done to win it. But if we lose the Princeton debate we shall have...
...case is unparalleled. Former Freshman classes have been blamed for having the enthusiasm more of a body of third year Graduates studying for a doctorate than of young and enthusiastic first year men. But such lethargy, such a lack of class spirit, such disheartening and selfish indifference to everything except their own private interests, no Freshmen, within the memory or knowledge of any present undergraduate, have shown. They will have no one to blame but themselves, if the eleven, stirred by no interest or support by their classmates, lose any feeling of responsibility they may have and fail...
This Christlike conception can most fifly be applied to the life of today. All those professions are religious which are spent in the service of man, and those are secular which are spent in the service of self. Nothing is more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most...