Word: unselfishness
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...with a significance and laws of its own. It is essentially tragic, in that it is incapable of solution. It is inevitably destructive to some degree of the individualities of man and wife, but Since it depends upon their retaining their individuality and brings into play their supra-personal (unselfish) capacities, it is creative of a higher order of individuals...
...universities. Technical requirements to matriculation have no place in the discussion; Dr. Little has passed them by. What he dwells upon--and with some length--s a little-thought-of phase of the situation. He takes his stand as President of a state supported institution. A humane feeling, unselfish, philanthropic, is the first, one might say the chief and only requirement. Candidates for admission should be considered as citizens; their characters should be the test of their eligibility. "To assure ourselves, in so far as we can, that the boy or girl desiring a college education at public expense...
...There is no finer record of high character and patriotic devotion, of unselfish service and of a spirit unquenched and majestic in death than that of Nathan Hale. . . . The hero's story should be taught to every child in our schools...
...when photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...
...whose unfounded wrath we can afford to ignore and whose malicious insinuations we can afford to pass by. It would seem that if they have anything to say of a people whom they once hailed as their unselfish deliverers, they at least should speak the language of truth and graciousness. Their statement that we are trying to undermine the independence of France, or that somebody wants to buy France, approaches the absurd. . . . "This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper...