Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once be done to bar out all such interlopers. The propriety of allowing any visitors during meal-time is questionable; and persons unaccompanied by students should at all hazards be rigidly excluded. The Board of Directors have it in their power to take immediate steps toward remedying present evil; and that the majority of the Association are in favor of a very radical change, we thoroughly believe. Let us be spared the sight in our beautiful dining-hall of those to whom society almost denies its gutters...
...dinner in order to get anything at all to eat. The result would be a most melancholy set of dyspeptics. As it is, men must leave off work at 5.30. They can then dress at their leisure, and have ample time to quiet down before eating. Of course the evil is not wholly avoided even by the present precautions: those who stop exercise at 5.30 can still ruin their digestions, if they will, by hurrying off at once to their dinner. But the rule is effectual in many cases at least, and helps to enjoin upon us a proper system...
...among his virtues we would mention his faithfulness; duty was his king. And next we mention modesty, that made him win and wear his honors with consummate grace. And then a native kindliness that made his friendships deep and tender, and filled his soul with charity "that thinketh no evil." And then purity of thought and deed that stamped its credentials on his clear, honest face; and over all an unobtrusive piety that graced and softened his whole being. He has taught us all how to put value into our living, and hope into our death...
...thought, on the whole, not best They were afraid lest the poet should return unexpectedly; besides, Mr. F-lds's shocking revelation had produced an unwonted feeling of depression. But at last an event occurred which stirred the club to its very depths. Charles Shirts, that emissary of evil, had actually been tendered a dinner (think of it!) in Boston, the home of the Poncas and the Daily Evening Tramp. A meeting was immediately called by the chairman, Mr. Alson Broncott; the President of Haverford College was expelled from the club for his offensive remarks at that dinner...
...every eve brought evil...