Word: evil
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Francis G. Peabody '69; "Modern Ideas of God," by Arthur C. McGiffert; "Is Our Protestantism Still Protestant," by William A. Brown '63; "A Turning Point in Synoptic Criticism," by Benjamin W. Bacon; "Recent Excavations in Palestine," by Professor David G. Lyon; and "The Economic Basis of the Problem of Evil," by Thomas N. Carver...
Socialists demand the whole product of labor, and the right to work on wages. It is admitted that the present distribution of wealth is wrong, but municipal control would do nothing to change this evil. Citizens would be forced to invest money drawn from them by taxation in this public venture, without realizing any interest on their investment for several years...
...second great evil that the investigating committee found in the slums was the environment in which the children were raised, which it described as containing all the influences that tend toward unrighteousness and corruption. Much of the best work that has been done in New York to offset this environment has been accomplished by means of new school-houses, recreation centres, and open playgrounds. In the last few years $80,000,000 has been spent by the School Committee of New York in this work...
...College point of view is indicated by President Eliot's remarks in his Report for 1902-03 (pp. 40-41): "The breaking up of College work for the individual student by frequent absences to play games at a distance from Cambridge is an evil which ought to be checked. It is a greater evil than formerly, now that intercollegiate games take place all the year round--that is, in winter, as well as in spring and autumn...
...which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political...