Word: selfishness
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...disease in the future rather than an attempt to cure those unfortunates who have fallen prey to its ravages. It may take two or three generations, but eventually there will be no more parched throats in need of alcoholic lubrication. Those responsible for this law, so odious to the selfish and narrow minded, had in mind its effects on future generations. Mr. Leonard speaks of the great test of popular approval but does not seem to be able to look beyond his own nose. Since the primary benefit was expected to accrue to those yet unborn, five years...
Alumni have shown no lack of interest in the growth of athletic and even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system...
Must Phillips Brooks House look on its environment as one comparable to a busy, inherently selfish city? True; college is selfish in that the sincere student comes realizing that he is about to devote four of the best years of his life to the process of analysing his own personality and directing it into such channels as will develop his peculiar talents and capabilities to the utmost. But this is not the whole story: If it were, each one of as would go forth to an enlightened hermitage. All this attention to self is subordinate to a more fundamental urge...
...been respectable, conscientious and vaguely approved of"--certainly as much as may be said of any similar organization in any community; it is not reasonable to demand at Harvard a greater interest in Phillips Brooks House than it would receive, on its own merits in a busy, inherently selfish city...
...origin. They are doing nothing to keep alive the ideals and institutions of free constitutional government. They are trying to debauch and debase every Senator and every public man who refuses to turn his back upon his country to surrender his convictions and obey the behests of selfish, morbid, contemptible and corrupt dollar aristocracy...