Word: selfishness
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...important consideration. Justice does not require that Germany be admitted at once to the League of Nations. In fact, it seems to require the very opposite, namely that it would be unjust to all the well-intentioned parties to the League, if a nation that had acted from consistently selfish and reactionary motives for forty years, and had constantly broken faith with its more honest neighbors, were admitted to the League, before showing even the smallest signs of a change of heart...
Patriotism, common sense, and even selfish interests, all combine to demand that every man shall do his utmost toward bringing about immediately such world-sweeping activities as to create work for every man and woman willing to work. MANUFACTUBERS RECORD...
Either through selfish carelessness or dishonesty the unusual privileges of the Farnsworth Room in the Widener Library are being abused. The unfortunate side of it is that this tendency is increasing as time goes on. The first year only one book was lost. Thus far this year more books have disappeared than during the preceding two years together. It ought to be understood by this time that "The books of the Farnsworth Room are to be used in the room only. They are not to be borrowed or taken away...
...undesirable citizen and a liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class; in the latter he is forming a habit which will eventually depreciate him in the eyes of all good citizens when, perforce, he becomes a member of the body politic...
...latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given to the claims which the students have upon the time and attention of the professors, for especially do the upperclassmen suffer a loss, which they cannot make good later...