Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best when they are not exhibited at all, and therefore the early morning hours are not the most fitting times for the exhibitions of spirit. The communication today complains of a nuisance which is quite common. It results form carelessness, we suppose, but it is none the less an evil. There are surely certain rules of self-restraint which the in mates of the dormitories should observe in order that they may protect themselves from lawlessness...
...economic effects on the United States would be evil...
...students lies in the toleration of an unwise state of college opinion. What the Advocate thinks we do not know, but it seems likely that it must believe as we do in the matter, since the root of our misfortunes is admitted generally to be this same false and evil point of view. We look forward with interest to the next number of the Advocate...
...mucker" nuisance has made itself felt early in the term. The blessing of such popular newspapers as the Boston morning dailies must be appreciated by every one; but it is most unfortunate that this blessing is accompanied by that great evil, the silver-tongued Cambridge "mucker." Is there no way in which these vendors may be prevented from crying their wares in the college yard, at least on the steps of the chapel. It has been said that there is none, but if there was a general understanding that papers should not be brought within a stone's throw...
...here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that, if the game becomes a mere medium for betting, it will be a public nuisance and ought to be suppressed; and partly from...