Word: selfishness
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...eleventh hour declares her intention of playing the game on paper and so to claim the championship. For the past three years she has by her peristent nonsense, destroyed the harmony of the foot-ball league. Patience is exhasted and the time has come when her selfish spirit should be so effectually chained that the college world may no longer be disgraced by such disgruntled hoggishness as it has been compelled to witness in this football question...
Surely, my friends, surely there is nothing in the greatest office which the American people can confer, which should make your president necessarily mean, sordid, selfish, ambitious and untrustworthy. On the contrary, the solemn duties which confront him tend to a sacred sense of responsibility. The trust of the American people, and an appreciation of their mission before the nations of the earth, should make him a patriotic man; while the tales of distress which reach him from the humble and the lowly, from the afflicted and from the needy in every corner of the land, cannot but awake...
...actually getting in the players way, yet by forming an unconscious barrier to the freedom of their movements. And besides, those few gentlemen who remained on the seats as they should, were entirely prevented from obtaining a view of some of the most interesting plays. A crowd is always selfish and the only way to keep men within bounds is to appoint several leaders to restrain them. If the captain of the eveven would kindly select six or seven ushers or clerks of the grounds at the next game, he would add a great debt to the comfort...
...laziness. Let us be vilified if we must, for other mistakes and vices, but do not let Harvard perpetuate for itself a reputation for that most despicable characteristic. Make up your minds now, that a week from Saturday will be spent by you in New Haven; let nothing selfish interfere, and victory on the diamond will remain with Harvard for another year...
...club from its membership and the interest attached to the championship contest is decreased by just so much. To be sure, the Williams team will undoubtedly do good work, but they can hardly be expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will over-balance, in the mind of every fair minded lover of base-ball, any momentary impulse of joy which may spring up at the thought...