Word: evil
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...utilized by the various class, scrub and minor teams, and something is being done each year, but it would be highly desirable if the work of filling in the land and preparing new turf could be hastened, for the overcrowding of the present available space is a crying evil. Unluckily, the larger our plant becomes, the greater is the cost of keeping it up, and there is no end to the improvements which might be made...
...consider what the two parties to this conflict can do to modify or cure its evil tendencies and develop its good ones, and what the community, or general public, can do to bring about a lasting treaty of peace. To this end let us apply to all objects, methods, and policies of industrial strife one test--the test of making for the public happiness...
...terrible brutality of the slave traders and unless the race is given the inspiration to rise, the very foundations of government are endangered. In conclusion, the speaker explained the present crop-lien system in the south whereby crops are mortgaged while growing, and stated that the remedy of this evil lies in the complete ownership of land by the negro...
...individuals composing it must be correspondingly strong. The requisites for the successful discharge of the duty of citizenship are four--intelligence, common sense, honesty, and courage,--and a man who possesses all of these is certain to be a factor for good in the community, rather than for evil. The same qualifications make the successful officeholder, for he is simply a trustee for the individuals who have elected him. Every man in public life must enter upon his official career with the sole purpose of doing the duties imposed upon him by his constituents...
During the past year the Faculty devoted much of its time to the discussion of the tabular view, but there was such division of opinion that the discussion led to no action toward improvement of the schedule of lecture hours. The chief evil of the present system is an injurious interference with the liberty of choice of the individual student among the courses nominally open to him, on account of congestion of most of the lectures within a small range of hours. The attempt to use the hour from 7.45 to 8.45 has failed; and a motion to give each...