Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...adventure is the first. The motive of the hunter is the second. Again, the hope of gaining "martial glory" can have no weight with a rational man. The common soldier and the ordinary line officer get little glory out of the war. No more legitimate is enlistment with the selfish hope of gaining political preferment in the future...
Thus if any man feels it his duty to enlist now, he is justified, but let his action be free from hasty and selfish impulse, and let him consider as an individual whether he can be most useful now or later...
Several years ago, however, the same man published both books while he was in College, thus depriving another man of the opportunity of paying for the greater part of a year's education. Not satisfed with this he selfishly copyrighted both books, refused to hand down the copyrights; but retaining them, annually rented out the books so that each year there was paid to him for the privilege of publishing each book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which...
...publication of a special "Index" this year the College itself has done much to put an end to this most selfish practice so far as that book is concerned; though we hope it will realize that there is a possibility of affording some man a chance to earn his way by publishing the book. The Photographic Committee of the class of Ninety-eight has put an end to the same practice of renting the "Portfolio." Though the same rental is still paid the benefit now goes to the class and not to an unscrupulous person who had no right...
...things which will be of benefit to him alone, and is unwilling to do what he can just as well as not to help a thletics in the University, aside from what he will get out of it for himself, he is rightly looked upon as a thoroughly selfish and ungrateful person who cares only for his own good. And yet this apathy cannot be regarded with any more contempt than that of the man who comes out for a team, shows himself physically worthy of a place on it, and, just as he is beginning to be relied...