Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have before had occasion to speak of the want of consideration shown by certain instructors in keeping their sections after the hour. In some cases the evil still continues. It is, we understand, a regular practice of one of the instructors in Greek not to let his men out until four or even five minutes after the proper time...
...evil and good, in the narrow school...
NOTWITHSTANDING what has been said in the College papers concerning the low, despicable advantage which some students have taken with regard to the privilege the Library has extended us in the use of reserved books, the evil still continues. Not only are reserved books hidden in various parts of the Library, so that no one can find them except the one who hid them for his own selfish purpose, but also books are constantly missing from the shelves and can be found nowhere in the Library, the supposition naturally being that some student has secretly carried off the book...
...result? On the first evening exactly three came, the next two, and so on in arithmetical progression. Another instructor has even gone to the trouble of sending formal invitation cards to his pupils, with the same result. Several other cases could be cited to support the opinion that the evil is rooted partly, at least, in the habitual conservatism of students in making new acquaintances by which they might profit. No wonder that professors soon give up all hope of ever bringing about the different relation which is so much to be desired. If it cannot be said that...
...general cries of grievance in the College press do not include a protest against an evil which is in every one's mouth from the beginning to the end of the year. I refer to the schedule of prices at the University Bookstore...