Word: selfishnesses
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...Private telegraph monopoly in this country has positive evils. (a) Selfish corporation management. (b) "Watered" stock. (c) Exhorbitant and complex rates. (d) Inadequate and expensive messenger service. (e) Press leagues. (f) Alliances with railroads. (g) Check on invention...
...reason that everyone cannot be accommodated at the same time; though the system is incomplete, it is a great blessing. And when one or two men monopolize anywhere from three to six books when they are practically assured that others are wanting them, they show an inconsiderate and selfish spirit which is certainly to be deplored. Let a man take his chances with the others. His coming to the library first gives him no just claim to all the books he may wish to read during the afternoon. He is entitled to the choice of one, possibly...
...duty, and learn to be expansive, to help the men less favored than himself, to learn that it is, in reality. more blessed to give than to receive. It is at a university that this lesson is hardest to learn; for the life though grand, is apt to be selfish. A man is with drawn from the affairs of the world and shut up with his books and his amusements, so that he needs to be cautions lest he shall be narrowed rather than broadened by his course. He must first of all be sure that no religious convictions...
...really devote more time to religion than at any other time of the year, and in general churchmen are not very demonstrative about religious matters. The first and most important work for us to do is to strengthen and broaden our own characters, for, though this seems a selfish idea, no man can help others to be strong until he is himself a broad, strong...
...captain of last year's crew, then spoke very strongly in favor of the resolution. He said, among other things, that Professors Ames and White, of Harvard, had both put themselves on record as favoring the confinement of athletics to undergraduates; that Harvard would not accept the resolutions for selfish reasons, but that public sentiment would force her to it. The Captains could interpret the constitution in no other way than as allowing them the authority to act as they like...