Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale graduate has published an appeal to students in general and Yale men in particular to stop the growing evil of gambling. He says, "years of toleration have enabled it to fasten itself on students' life with the tenacity of a tumor on the human vitals, so that reform may call for heroic action." To overcome this evil he suggests among other means, "a resolution calling for action at the next annual meeting of the inter-collegiate Y. M. C. A., in order that a crusade against gambling in all colleges may be called...
...purposes. Some of the oldest halls have Revolutionary memories, but have not attractive exteriors. The lecture system so largely used, in part even in Mathematics, of course offers temptation to cramming; and that very much of this is done is not denied; but this is not regarded as wholly evil even by so competent a judge as the late Professor Jevons. Nevertheless many are unable to see much that is good in the process. The impulse, however, which is given to a large and wise use of the library, by the lecture system, is plainly to be seen...
...waiters are careless and others incompetent. I must say that it seems to me very heroic treatment to decapitate the steward when a change of head waiter may cure the trouble, when indeed it looks very much as if such a change had already very considerably lessened the evil. The hall is so much better now than under the steward who held office when I first joined the Dining Association, that I cannot look forward with any complacency to trying the experiment of a new administration...
...more easily understood than expressed. That it would be the immediate effect of co-education to destroy this element of college life at Harvard, we do not believe; that such would be the ultimate result seems very probable. But that such a result would be altogether an unmixed evil, provided that for the narrower college spirit a broader university spirit were substituted, may perhaps be questioned...
Hence the money consideration, even if it were a weighty one, must soon be confined to boating. The expenditure of energy is certainly not an unmixed evil, some men are rather the better for it. There's many a lazy boy who has come to college and lost his inertness through the rivalry of college sports and gone out from his alma mater an energetic man, wholly through the influence of his efforts in the athletic arena...