Word: unselfish
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...calls its football team the "Black Bears." The University color is baby blue. Three years as dean at LaFayette have been enough to make Arthur Hauck the campus' best-liked man. He is 41, solidly built, vigorous, and a college president once described him as "genial, serene, unselfish, kind, modest, patient, sympathetic and lovable." Son of a Methodist minister, he was born in Springfield, Minn., has degrees from Oregon's Reed College and Columbia, has been teacher & administrator at Antioch, Honolulu's Punahou School and Vassar. He has a son and daughter in high school, never misses...
...Outlook. . . . My business interests take all of my time.* . . I enjoyed working with you. . . . With best wishes. . . . Alfred E. Smith." "My Dear Governor: It is with the deepest and sincerest regret that I acknowledge your note. . . . My extreme reluctance in the matter of conforming to your unselfish wish is inspired by my personal appreciation of your cooperation and devoted editorial assistance. . . . Your guidance and assistance have been an inspiration. . . . With best wishes. . . . Frank A. Tichenor." Quick to speculate on more fundamental reasons than his "business interests'' to explain the Smith retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late...
...University accommodate itself promptly to significant changes in the character of the people for whom it exists." His great practical accomplishments were all molded in the light of his desire to teach young men: to teach them the love of learning, the joy of work, and the art of unselfish service. It is fitting that the present generation of Harvard students, who knew not President Eliot, pay tribute on the centennial anniversary of his birth to one who influenced so profoundly the development of the Harvard of today...
...World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left him when he confessed that joining-up was not an unselfish act, agrees to dance the Bolero with him so that the first night will not be unsuccessful. The dance thrills the Parisian elite, there are braves, and much hand-clapping. Raoul insists on changing for a skating number against the advice of his half-brother. While he is dressing, Helen...
Mused Mary Pickford in Chicago: "Women ought to learn that kindness is sometimes the most devastating and weakening influence. Wives especially make this mistake. There ought to be a school where women are taught to be reasonably selfish. It is the unselfish ones who ruin themselves and everyone depending upon them...