Word: selfishnesses
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...when we suffer. The only possible cause for suffering has been in our contact with professional nines. From the standpoint of the faculty this has seemed no cause of harm, and we generally approve their opinion. From the standpoint of our athletic interests, which must, of course, be somewhat selfish, this action is regarded as most advantageous. It is not so judged from the fact that Harvard will be shut out from playing with league teams, because, if such be the case, there are many strong amateur nines in and about Boston which she can obtain good practice from...
...charge is made that a new and gorgeous gambling-house has been opened in Boston, designed by its keeper to answer the particular requirements of Harvard College students. The selfish interest of the college alone would seem to require the immediate closing of that particular gambling-house by the police. There is a new college year to begin in a few months. - [N. Y. Tribune...
...selfish ends, to blacken thy fair name...
...taken with regard to the privilege the Library has extended us in the use of reserved books, the evil still continues. Not only are reserved books hidden in various parts of the Library, so that no one can find them except the one who hid them for his own selfish purpose, but also books are constantly missing from the shelves and can be found nowhere in the Library, the supposition naturally being that some student has secretly carried off the book to his own room. Books carried off in this manner have been missing for two or three weeks...
...came to know her better, I found a peculiar charm in her which I never saw in other women, whom contact with the social world makes selfish. Here was a woman who, during the twenty years of her life, had met with no more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers...