Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...refutation of some assertions in the preamble of resolution 2, and of the statement of the first part of the twofold evil mentioned in the preamble of resolution 5, I would instance the success of Yale in base-ball and foot-ball for the past two years. In these two sports they had no professional trainer last year, Harvard assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, and during the previous year none in football, and next to none in baseball...
...felt at all in shaping the students course, probably exert a larger influence than all others. He is drawn to studies which in themselves have no attraction for him, and repelled from studies in which he would take a genuine interest. The secret of the cure for this evil seems to be in the fact that it is the students who determine the amount of work required in each elective. A change suggested in the recent discussion of the question in our columns recognizes this fact. The plan is to represent the value of each elective by the ratio between...
...these colleges under reasonable restrictions, and all this without entering into the new agreement with Harvard and the rural colleges. In this event we see no outcome for Harvard but the total destruction of inter-collegiate sports. But this result would not perhaps be looked upon altogether as an evil by those in power. We cannot but think that the accession of Princeton, Brown and Columbia at least to the new scheme is necessary to its success at Harvard on any other basis than the total destruction of inter-collegiate sports with...
...Time is often of great importance to them; but their physical powers are in demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport beyond the capacity of the undergraduate, and thus limits the number that can participate in it. It makes hard work of what was intended as a recreation. Therefore...
...steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling over the higher electives, to be interrupted by piercing screams or intermittent warblings from unknown parts of the yard. We do not venture to suggest a remedy for this most crying evil, but that it must not go on is too evident...