Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unique place in Harvard's existence for many years, and in general there can be no doubt that it has done well. Merely in serving as a clearing house between the numerous extra-University groups calling for student aid, and the numerous students who find tangible satisfaction in altruism or often in material training, Phillips Brooks House becomes an integral part of Harvard; and this activity is but a minute part of the web of organization interests. Freshman Week, the Loan Library, work in the Graduate Schools, the winter lecture course, allowe their continuation chiefly...
...able men of the college have sufficient means to enable them to go through college without help. These men would be inclined to feel that it would be unfair for them to compete against men who were actually in needs of funds. Even in the absence of pure altruism, such men might use this aspect of the situation to justify a lack of initiative on their part. Work in an undergraduate activity for pay might seem detrimental to their self-respect, as savoring too much of "professionalism." These considerations would tend to eliminate from competition for high positions most...
...beyond cavil in regaining a position of honor and trust among the nations. She has honestly endeavored to sustain a balance of concord in the world; and while other powers equivocate on treaties of peace, she has steadfastly backed them. One does not need to believe that this is altruism; it is enough that the ogre has proved to be a very gentle creature, and that Deutsche Treue has found international bearing where once was jingoism...
...since the Open Door policy was adopted. Much as the abstract principle of liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save China from her neighbor...
Unlike the New York clergymen who are forever getting movements under way to uplift the drama (they did it again last week), the Princeton undergraduates are not impelled by motives of pure altruism. In the latest film the Andy Foger of the Princeton campus, on the morning of the track meet wit. Yale, gave a few short ones of cocains to the university-half-miler. And all was for the hand of a Vassar maid...