Word: selfishness
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...confines of the new dormitories "class politics" are likely to be rife. Good fellowship and activity should steer one clear of selfish aims and motives. Create good fellowship among yourselves and do not lay too much emphasis upon making a "club". The latter now belongs in a sphere entirely outside of the life of a first year man. True success is a life well lived and tasks well done. We are looking to the members of the class of 1918 to enter into life here determined to make their class the best that has ever come to Harvard...
...resulting confusion caused many complaints. Now an even more unfortunate condition is coming to light. Men are forging names and resorting to like petty dishonesties to evade the rules of the new system. The new plan of signing for courts is a good one but the men are too selfish to give it a fair trial. If this continues, there will be started a black-list--and men who do not obey the rules governing the courts will be first warned and then placed on this list, a penalty that will cause them to forfeit their right to play...
...Henry Lee Higginson '52, president of the club, made a brief speech on the history of the movement which culminated in the union of Harvard and Technology. In commenting on the affair Major Higginson complimented the two institutions on their "team play" and added "I have never seen a selfish thought, or a selfish thing, any time, any where, in this matter...
...brave deeds of southern men are part of the common heritage of American glory. Moreover, we all know that the young men and youths who took part in that war were made better men, morally, mentally, and physically. Such service ever has been the great counteracting influence against the selfish aims and cares of everyday life. A man who engages in trade or toil, buys and sells by the yard and pound, and as the years roll on becomes as narrow and mean as his smallest measure. But war breaks out, his country calls, he throws aside all personal interests...
...problem, Mr. Tagore first established the assumption of the actuality of self and that the fundamental property of self is its individuality. Not the annihilation of self but the separation of it from the tyranny of the sensual desires is the supreme goal of the philosophy of India. Selfish pleasures are in truth self-destructible. Ignorance is the only fetter which binds the self to these pleasures. Therefore, sinfulness is not contained in the original nature of man to be destroyed by God alone, but may be wiped out by the destruction of ignorance...