Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...majority of men the law of life is oblivion. We belong to the unknown, the unrecorded masses and one epitaph would do for all. This is one great law of man. A second is that the human race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again. The hope of the world has been...
...practice under the above conditions as respectable, there is no remedy. Volumes of mandates from faculties, armies of proctors will not stop it, if students themselves do not come to the rescue. Indeed, severe measures and elaborate plans for watching the students in examination rooms will only increase the evil by causing a wider breach between examiners and the examined. When college authorities realize that the true student is working for his own good, is his own agent in a life work, and try to urge him on by inciting nobler ambitions, and do not regard him as a machine...
...come from angry hearts and seething brains. While we can easily (far too easily) appreciate the feelings of these men we would counsel that the citadel of their enemy be attacked in a calm and methodical way. Regulations by the faculty are the only means of obviating this growing evil...
...Harvard student is proverbially fond of fault finding. Nothing is more to his taste than a dignified protest against some great and crying evil, or an undignified but lively "kick" against some minor form of grievance. The latest abuse upon which student opinion has felt itself obliged to frown may be classed with the smaller annoyances of college life. It seems that the students who have elected courses requiring their presence at the Agassiz Museum are subjected to great annoyance by the custom of some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this...
...proposes of having a general board, representing all the colleges interested, to have charge of the preparation and marking of examination papers in all cases when subjects and limits can be agreed upon, is not without weight, and, if carried out, would in a large measure obviate the present evil of diversity in nominal and actual requisitions for admission. Under the present regime, examinations are more easily passed at one college than at another, either because the papers are easier in themselves or because they are more easily marked. As long as this diversity in admission exists, the value...