Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Compulsory chapel is not a popular institution at any college. It is an evil that has to be endured quite generally, however. This is how the students at the University of Pennsylvania endure it, according to the University Magazine: "A stranger coming into chapel would be much shocked at the apparent want of reverence amongst the students. Some are talking about the coming sports, betting on the different events, others are getting up first hour's recitation; while, from the rear, a freshman regales the audience with the exquisite melody of a tin horn. Why is this irreverence? The solution...
...spleen in the columns of a college daily. Every one knows these men, whenever one of them thinks that the whole world has ceased for a moment to be at his feet, he rushes into print. When he sees his complaint in print he imagines that the fancied evil is done away with...
...drawing it seems that he is to be considered after those who have never drawn at all. It would be much fairer to let the freshmen take their chances with all the rest of the men in the college and draw in the general drawing. But the one great evil is the abuse of the right of transfer. The remedy is to stop transferring of rooms. Allow no transfer and the chances will be fairer for every one. If a man draws a room and finds he cannot occupy it, let him give it up and the bursar will dispose...
...distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain of evil that cannot be avoided. In one exchange the methods of assigning scholarships at German, English and American schools are thoroughly discussed, and the relative...
...Yale News, for the edification of its readers, could be made to apply to a considerable extent, at very many of the colleges of this country. The News thus sermonizes : "There is a growing tendency among us to look too lightly upon extreme in drinking. The amount of evil which such a negative position can work in a short time is incalculable. It may not be well to shout loud and weak temperance projects, - that is far from the best way of bringing about the desired result. But if we would take a more positive stand, if we would...