Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many instructors, it is said, favor the abolition of the marking system. The truth is that the practice of assigning so-called marks is one productive of much evil, and wholly unworthy to be employed in an institution that claims to be a university. It is well that a man's work be reported, in some form, as good, fair or bad; but it is impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves...
...majesty of the law must be vindicated at all hazards! At a certain "university" we wot of, whenever the college papers are smitten with a reform fever and begin to cry out for a reform in college administration, the editors are promptly "summoned," and sternly warned to mend their evil ways. If this does not prove effective harsher measures are sometimes adopted; the terrors of suspension are sometimes brought into requisition...
...looks as if the janitor evil at Harvard is to be remedied at last...
Setting aside the question of inconvenience, that of health comes up. Men complain of the evil effects of sitting in chapel for fifteen minutes with cold feet. This is nothing compared to the injurious effects of sitting almost motionless for three hours in Massachusetts. The building is as full of draughts as a barn...
Debater, Speaking on temperance: "Gentlemen, now all know the evil effects of alcoholic liquors...