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Word: evil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current Nation contains a letter from an indignant Yale undergraduate on the "senior society evil" at that college. We await the next number of the Nation with interest, feeling sure that the angry replies will be numerous. The subject of the Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1883 | See Source »

...Yale enthusiasm" has been largely attributed to her society system. This fact will prove a serious stumbling-block in the part of the reformer. Of the merits of this particular case, however, we know nothing, although believing that, in general, college societies are productive of more good than evil. That they could be made productive of still more good in the case of every college, we do not doubt for an instant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1883 | See Source »

...association with its formidable name, and its imposing shingles pursued such a course as to bring forth good ? Has it held meetings of any recent date to set forth its views, and then endeavored to disseminate them ? Has it had the effect of abating in a single lot this evil which it is in existence to fight ? And in no single instance can we answer in the affirmative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 10/9/1883 | See Source »

...society cannot gain enough energy to successfully prosecute its work, let a new one be formed that can. No society could have a better purpose and aim than such a one, but it must use every guard lest it strengthen rather than destroy the evil of drinking here by bringing ridicule upon itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 10/9/1883 | See Source »

...importunities of their sons, and then complain that we have trained them in idleness. The public press, as a whole, are telling the colleges very plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions we are making, not to stop sports, but to keep them within due bounds. These colleges may gain the championship in games, but let the public know that it is not to their credit or for the good of the students committed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. MC COSH ON ATHLETICS. | 6/21/1883 | See Source »

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