Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alms, and no man can consent to receive alms without a sacrifice of personal independence. The remedy suggested for this is that the money be understood as a loan, to be repaid, if possible, after graduation. This might take away part of the sting, but some of the evil effects remain. The system, in fact, is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble...
...large, perhaps, to allow the instructors to get out the averages in four weeks, we feel that some instructors do not fully appreciate the injustice that is often done the student in not letting him know his average as soon as possible. Regarding the marking system as an evil some may think that the less the attention paid to it the better; but if, as is the case, marks are the only means by which we can judge of the estimate an instructor makes of our work, it is but justice to give us this estimate as early as possible...
...anything to do with them. But this is morality, and thus, if our mental growth is simply full enough, it does lead us in the end toward morality. Moral law is in harmony with the laws of mental growth in all cases of completed growth, and thus, however evil the world may be, there is always in a man's nature a tendency that leads one to rest nowhere but in the possession of true moral insight. This, then, is the first religious aspect of reality. Whatever power planned the world, this power ended in making man's nature harmonize...
...Crimson complains that the athletic meetings are rendered uninteresting and "boresome" by the candidates for the general excellence prize doing the same feats over and over again. This the Crimson hardly thinks a necessary evil, "but if it is," the editorial concludes, "then by all means let us do away with that prize." We do not deny that the events of the meetings are often rendered uninteresting by the repetition of feats, but this objection applies not only to the candidates for general excellence, but to all who are contesting for the prize in almost any event. We must, therefore...
...there was a change in the former ideas of physical training. Whereas the Greeks had thought the mind and body closely allied, and to work together, the followers of Christianity considered the mind as impeded and clogged by the body, which was supposed to be the source of all evil, and as such, worthy of no consideration...