Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many a student feels that the part he has taken in its meetings has been of more practical value than any course in the college curriculum. In the past the great trouble has been the easy way with which membership to the society could be secured. To remedy this evil and to make membership mean something more than it has in the past, certain qualifications will in the future be required. For the benefit of the new members of the college, we shall, before the first regular debate, publish a brief outline of the history and the aims...
...leaving the yard with a pass do not give it to any of the host of "objectionables" who throng outside the gates, eager for a chance to enter; again, be sure time none of these creatures pass themselves off as belonging to your party. To obviate this last evil, which in the past has been a prolific cause of trouble, the committee have decided that a yard ticket shall admit a gentleman and but two ladies. If the committee succeed in shutting off this "supply" they will be doing the college a great service...
...honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly the reward of only scholarship and high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select several promising public...
...recent game with the Brown freshmen emphasized another and already too well known evil of eighty-eight's nine-over-confidence. In the first inning Harvard scored nine runs, but in all the subsequent innings the playing became loose. A spirit of over-confidence, gained from unexpected success at first, made the rest of the game in strong contrast on account of poor play. So many freshman teams have suffered form a spirit of over-confidence that it is to be hoped that eighty eight will not fall into the same trap...
...reduced very materially the temperature of the prices of other things; but did not (probably because it could not) do anything regarding the prices of the pamphlets and syllabi used in such large numbers in college. These pamphlets are necessary in a college course, and it is indeed an evil that they should be sold at prices so far above their real value, nay, so far above their real value, with a good fat profit added. Is this evil incurable, and must we always be imposed on thus? Is it not somehow in the power of editors and compilers...