Word: selfishnesses
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...given every opportunity to show what they can do. There are a dozen men in college who have not appeared on the field who have every physical qualification for playing the game, with proper training. These men refrain from practice, some from lack of college spirit, some from selfish motives, and some from pure laziness...
...Already many men in the larger courses have complained that of the comparatively few books it is impossible for the instructor to have set aside for general use, the most important are frequently hidden on distant shelves. They are thus always at the disposal of the individuals who are selfish enough to sacrifice the interests of all the other members of the course to their...
...wealthy Californian of the present day, whose palatial residence on "Nob Hill," where he keeps open house, is over-run by hangers-on, and whose boundless hospitality is shamefully abused. He is particularly beset by two so-called friends, who use his house as their own for selfish ends, the one to provide his daily food and lodgings, the other to secure a husband for his daughter. Interwoven with the main plot are the adventures of Marmaduke's god-son, Alfred Wemyss, who has got himself entangled in a love affair with the wife of a fiery Mexican, Don Guzman...
Cheering a bad play of an opponent is unkind. Cheering to worry an opponent is shabby. Cheering in our home for our men only is at least ungraceful and very selfish...
Looking upon the development of character from the most selfish standpoint, when we try only to make ourselves good and strong, it is easy to see that a thing most necessary and helpful is the doing of good to others. No character can be noble or strong that is wrapped up in itself, for a selfish and self-centered man is the meanest and most hopeless of all creatures. But every one can find some way of doing good in his daily work. It is not necessary that everybody should be a founder or even a helper of great charitable...