Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding addresses were undoubtedly those of President Cromwell of the Stock Exchange and James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor General, the former a fighting speech against political meddling with business, the latter a solemn warning of the evil tendencies in politics and government today. A Baltimore banker was simultaneously cheered and hissed for a smashing attack on the Volstead Act; the connection of this subject with the business of banking was not made clear...
...Purchase by the Government of wheat at $1.75 a bushel, or similar price, in order to sustain the market. This is advocated by some " radicals" of the wheat belt, but opposed by Secretary Wallace because it would tend to increase wheat production, thereby augmenting the existing evil of oversupply. Eventually the Government would have to dump the wheat back on the market or into...
Professor Lake's experiment in allowing his students in English 35a to choose between two systems of grading is a step towards the millenium when the necessary evil of marking will be entirely done away with. At best marks are a mechanical method of recording knowledge, and at worst they are a false goal which hides the real purpose of education from careless eyes. For many undergraduates work for a C rather than for the opportunities which a course offers. Even among the men of highest distinction the mark seeker is in evidence...
...responsibility for a sport in the hands of the undergraduates and graduates most concerned and which prevents the development of extreme professionalism in the person of an athletic dictator. Such a system has been the keystone of athletic policy at Harvard and has saved the College from the evil of abject submission to an all-powerful coach, which has been common in other colleges. But when the system of divided control encroaches on the efficiency of coaching and leads to a long string of defeats, it is time to call a halt and to readjust the emphasis And this, apparently...
Naturally such a procedure would conceivably work hardships. There may be men in the lower two groups who are passionately fond of music and these unfortunates will suffer. Yet the "snap course" evil is worth diminishing and if this is one means to an end, the end will more than justify...