Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with that solemn diffidence becoming to solitary interpretations of Olympian dicta, that one ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion...
...real evil in this deception is that the student carrying more than one scientific course finds his laboratory periods in hopeless conflict. The Chemistry which the catalogue guaranteed could be done on Monday afternoon, has to be carried over to Tuesday, which is, according to schedule, reserved for Botany. Usually the instructors of any single course are indifferent to the presence of other laboratory courses on the student's program and even if conscious of this could make no allowance for it in the allotment of the work...
...small-town only child, brought up in the late 19th Century tradition of fearing God, honoring her parents, seeing, doing, knowing no evil. But Eva wanted to know what it was all about, wanted to be something better than a carefully cultivated small-town girl. She dabbled in books, woman's suffrage, radicalism ; when the War gave her the chance she went to France as a nurse. Meanwhile Hans Haaska, Missouri doctor's son, was finding his painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister's death called...
Knowledge ladled out in spoon-fed doses, like the brimstone and treacle of Dotheboys Hall, is a thing of the past, but in certain history and sociology the evil influence of the ancient Trivium and Quadrivium remains. These atavistic tendencies are manifest, not in any narrowness or compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious...
...nineteenth century, and they exist in Germany now. It is idle to rail against the German people, in Bishop Manning's fashion, and wonder how Goethe or Schiller could be reconciled to the illiberalism of the Nazi party. Criticism on such grounds becomes merely sanctimonious, for the evil is not in the whims of any represented majority, but in the fact that modern democracies have insufficiently represented minorities. Were the less numerous and more enlightened factions to have true proportional representation in the United States, in Germany, and in England, political and social injustice to negroes, Jews, and Irish might...