Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perennial question of hazing is again, with the opening of the college year, agitating the public press. Remedy on remedy for the evil is proposed, all apparently equally unefficacious. Mr. Charles F. Thwing of Cambridge, in a recent article, expresses the opinion that "the regarding of the student as a citizen of the town in which the college is situated, and as responsible to its officers for all criminal offenses, whether stealing a sign or hazing a freshman, serves to weaken the force of the custom. Many colleges thus treat their members, and the members so regard themselves. The difficulty...
Iowa, it is stated, has so many colleges - almost thirty - that they have all been kept more or less weak, not one of them advancing to the rank of a thorough university. This ridiculous multiplication of colleges is a crying evil in other States as well as in Iowa. If three-quarters of the colleges in America were utterly abolished, and their value and endowments devoted to the enlargement of the remaining colleges and the improvement of the public schools, it would be of incalculable benefit to the people...
...loss. The experience has been so expensive that it is to be hoped that the profit derived from it will be in reasonable proportion to the expenditure. Some months ago, almost every day it was found necessary to chronicle considerable thefts at the gymnasium, but by due care the evil was finally removed, for all time let it be hoped. The authorities of the boat-house owe it to all interested to exert every effort to detect the criminals and to provide against all possibility of future accidents like the one that has just occurred. It is very unfortunate indeed...
...might adapt the Athenaeum's latest to Harvard : Why is Memorial lunch aesthetic? Because it is a mid-day-evil...
...wish again to call attention to the numerous pedlers who infest the buildings. It seems almost impossible to avert this evil. In spite of the notices posted in the entries scarcely a day passes during which we are not troubled by some suspicious-looking persons assailing us with petitions containing a long account of their afflicted families, and demand aid. We hope the janitors will exert themselves to stop this nuisance...