Word: evil
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tend to spread dissatisfaction with existing institutions are allowed to be taught. It is quite amusing to see how the sciences are prepared for learners. To eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge is dangerous, so the Russian government removes from the knowledge to be administered all evil effects. From the gymnasia - preparatory schools with a seven years' course - the candidate is admitted into the university with a stock of knowledge manufactured on the above principles. But in spite of these precautions the spirit of the nineteenth century does reach the susceptible youths, and the consequence is that...
...month, and he wears a uniform-Foreigners are always puzzled to see the connection between university learning and a uniform. But this mystery is explained by the fact that the students are civilly and criminally under the jurisdiction of the University Board. The uniform serves, then, to detect the evil-doers in case of mischief done. The students are ungrateful enough not to appreciate the beauties of this system, and the result is constant conflict with the authorities...
...sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best hours, for the greatest good of the greatest number; whereas the compiler of this year's schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three, or Saturday morning, evidently with a view to preventing students from taking them. The principle of conveniencing the instructors instead of the students is a thoroughly bad one. The result of making a good elective conflict...
...forget that this art differs essentially from one practised in the prize-ring. The presence of several spectators in braided coats and "bell trousers" did not speak highly of the good taste and discrimination of some members in disposing of their complimentary tickets to such friends. If this evil arises from the custom introduced this year of selling tickets, it should be stopped, or it might perhaps be remedied by requiring all members to indorse with their own names the tickets they give to their acquaintances. Heretofore the distinctive feature in all college sports has been the absence...
Surely there must be something radically wrong in a system which permits such injustice. That the evil exists every student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...