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Graft comes into existence when public officials, elected to represent the best interests of the people, forget their trust, become selfish, take what does not belong to them and aid and abet evil institutions. This is more than treason, it is a crime against government itself. It means the paralysis of the democratic spirit of a community and the tendency of good men to be indifferent to its welfare...
...they will have a few days in which to "work up" each of their courses, are not most men inclined to neglect their regular work during the term; do not the Faculty thus, like the seminars which have grown out of the system and which they have frowned upon, "abet students in the neglect of regular work" by maintaining the present system? A consideration of these questions forces the conclusion that the present system of mid-year examinations is far from satisfactory. It seems clear that something ought to be done. Either they ought to be abolished altogether, or else...
...well-known physiological fact that many a man, and more women, have been made the victims of hypochondria, of forgetfulness regarding their debts, of illusions of the most aggravating and exciting sort, by curiosity. Now, it may be almost reprehensible in Mr. William Collier, and those who aid and abet him in this query, "Who is Jones?" Intellects have been shattered by questions of this sort and endeavors at their solution. The sphinx herself is much shattered after some 4,000 or more years of looking as if she wanted to ask some such question as (translated...
...count'nance and abet...