Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life, and that the devil should always be fought with fire. If Mr. Lodge will read the history of the Anti-Slavery contest, which he is so fond of quoting, he cannot discover one apology for evil, or one compromise with evil men and methods made by any one of the little band of Abolitionists; and no one can dispute their great and lasting success...
Here are eight years spent in instructing a branch which we are ready to throw aside after two or three years. Might not our University try to remedy this evil by applying some severe test in this branch of study at the admission examinations...
...that has meaning in it. This agitation does not indicate as some public papers have inferred, that cribbing is present to an alarming degree at Harvard. If true comparisons could be made, there can be no doubt that Harvard would be shown to be quite as free from this evil as any other New England college. The manliness evident in all departments of college life, and the maturity of Harvard men, are strong evidences that the vast majority of students would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable, only...
...eleventh lecture was delivered last evening. The lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors...
...ones. Why do they stop with three or four divisions? Why not go a step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still remains. They might as well ask the instructor to mark the books with a red pencil instead of a blue one. It would lighten the weight of the examination just as much...