Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time during which the gymnasium is open in the evening is certainly short enough; but that almost half of this time should be rendered useless for some exercises, because the gas is not turned up until about a quarter of nine is certainly not a necessary evil...
...tables or-what is worse put them on a wrong shelf. Hence other men finding empty spaces where they expected to find books conclude that the reference books are in use. Greater care on the part of everyone who uses the reserved books is the remedy for this evil...
...spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization in the face, and because animals can run into evil courses, become vegetables which cannot? This indeed amounts to throwing up the game of life and admitting that the world is worse off the older it gets. It is the business of the true culture to point out the landmarks that verify progress, to add to the experience of the individual...
...finally on the latter, solely because of the reported malarial tendencies of New haven. And this imminity of Harvard is undoubtedly due in great measure to the wise fore-thought of the college authorities. Three adn a half years ago, although there had been up to that time no evil results, they removed from the dormitory buildings, at considerable expense, a system of drainage that was most offensive, and that would probably before this time have brought a fever epidemic. The college now is absolutely healthful, and, barring Fresh Pond water, so is Cambridge. For this...
Perhaps we ought for the present to look upon the marking system as a necessary evil. Nevertheless we do not come to college to be marked; and it may be laid down as a truism that any course of instruction in which the element of marks preponderates over that of instruction, in which the energies of the instructor are expended in estimating the work rather than in criticising it, and in which the practical result and outcome of the student is a mark and not the means by which to do better,-that any such course of study...