Word: evil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...destructible and the second attains joy eternal. We groan because we have two different natures, that there is no unity in us; but who would not wish to take part in his soul's redemption? People who have turned from bad to good are often haunted by their evil thoughts and feelings of old. This is because their bodies are mere dumb creatures which do the tricks taught them. If we purify our inward souls our bodies will tend to form themselves accordingly...
...bounds on the field, hereafter a rope be stretched around the field as in the Technology game, and no one except the players allowed to enter inside. As long as there is nothing but the remonstrances of the captain and coaches to keep the men off the field, the evil cannot be remedied...
...Another evil attends the practice, now become so common, of intercollegiate matches. As these contests approach, there is more or less distraction of the minds of the students from their proper pursuits, and for the time being a more or less serious neglect of study. This is an evil inevitable while the present system is maintained, and is of sufficient magnitude to justify, in the opinion of the undersigned, an absolute prohibition of intercollegiate games altogether...
...systematically steal with a small risk of detection, in spite of the watchful vigilance of those in charge of the gymnasium, and when, if detected, they can go scott free by paying a sumequal to not one quarter of what they stole, it is not likely that the evil will be abolished very soon, Such outrageous, make-believe justice, will encourage thieving far more than it will discourage it. The security of property demands that men who steal shall be punished as criminals, and it is a demand that must be respected. The Cambridge police and justices have always shown...
...railroads and public alike; (b) local traffic, which is generally small, must be charged more to be profitable to the railroads; (c) for the public the alternative is either a local traffic at reasonable though higher rates or no traffic at all. In short, local discriminations are a necessary evil.- Testimony of Messrs. Kernan, Seymour, Herrick, Ackerman, Mink and others before Senate Committee on Railroads. 1886; report of this same committee, pp. 147-154, 213-219; Hadley, chap. vi.; Quarterly Journal of Economics...