Word: evil
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regretted that they have taken it so much for granted that the papers already established will treat the new-corner harshly. We, certainly, are not so bowed down by years that we can consistently look upon every innovation in the literature of the College as a permanent evil. The field the Lampoon has chosen by no means encroaches upon our ground, - even if it did, we should be rather glad than sorry, - and we can assure its editors that any jokes at our expense will be taken always in the spirit they are made. Judging from its first number...
They have done well in pointing out the evils which must of necessity beset those of us who, with blind infatuity, clothe ourselves; in garments made by English tailors; with unerring instinct they have discovered, and with overwhelming force have stated, the danger of having our furniture made on such demoralizing principles as those laid down by Eastlake. But is this enough to reclaim us from the evil of our ways? Are there not many other besetting sins weighing us down that should be corrected, lest we "leave college self-esteemed oligarchs, with neither the power nor the inclination...
...Madame Iv, permit me to offer you some of this fruit defendu.' Iv she make one courtesy; ze snake he fill her whole parasol with appel; he say, 'Eritis sicut Deus. Mons. Adam he will eat ze appel, he will become like un Dieu, - know ze good and ze evil. But you, Madame Iv, cannot become more of a goddess than you are now!' And zis finish Madame Iv." - Wells-Coll. Chronicle...
...loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...
...variety of statistics being given. The result is summed up by saying that the average number of absences was two or three times as great as under the old system, though the influence of the change upon the average scholarship of the class was imperceptible either for good or evil. Those who obtained more than seventy-five per cent for the year's work averaged about two absences a week, and it is suggested that all who exceed that limit should be warned, and forfeit their privileges for a continued excess...