Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ought a well established phonetic law to be regarded as admitting no real exceptions? 4. Is it possible to determine with some certainty Old French pronunciation? And if so, was it essentially different from the modern pronunciation? 5. Is the influence of Goethe's Faust for good or for evil? 6. A study of Lessings influence upon German Literature...
...method to prevent cribbing must be of a radical sort. There is an evil underlying it and supporting it that must be handled without gloves. This underlying evil is the college opinion that stamps cribbing as a thing not wrong in itself. It is the feeling that there is a difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber...
...hope that the fact that such resolutions have been passed by a representative student body will call general attention to the subject, and rouse discussion upon it. For it is only by discussion and agitation that the students can be brought to see the true nature of the evil, and establish a public opinion which will condemn...
...preserve or improve the health, or even in the case of those who carry it beyond this point, though still within the bounds of amateur sport, it is not easy to make a decided statement. The reports are conflicting, some authorities appearing to have seen a great many evil results from athletic sports, effecting the heart, while others are of the opinion that their injurious influences have been much overrated. To begin with, not all who enter athletic sports have their hearts examined, and even when they do, it is very seldom that a physician is thoroughly satisfied with...
Another, and perhaps more feasible way of preventing the evil, would be to open the doors some two or three hours before the games begin. By this method those who care to "come early and avoid the rush." could do so, while those who come late would have fully as good a chance of getting seats as at present, and all the present crowding would be avoided. At all events let there be some improvement in the method of admission to the Winter Meetings...