Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young America, and especially to Harvard, with her rich heritage of ideals and traditions, all of these facts ought to present a tremendous challenge, "for what you are, the race shall be". If the world seems worse, if evil seems more rampant, it is not true that all of these forces against right-eousness were not present in the hearts of men before the war. The hatred, the cruelty, the lust, the falsity, was not on the surface, but it was there underneath, and the war simply brought it out into the light. Never in history have men and women...
...sympathy with his generation, to be let alone. From the undergraduate point of view, to wish deliberately to be a minister is heresy. But this attitude is more habit than anything else, a habit which is hard to overcome. If regarded as something more than a necessary evil, like grace before meals, preaching can be made a great profession...
...State of Illinois William Bross Lloyd has been pardoned. He and fifteen others were convicted of violating a law of the country and spreading seditious propaganda during a national emergency; but Governor Small argues that they accomplished no evil and that the law under which they were imprisoned is not a good law, therefore why should they not go free? Accordingly, the Governor opened the gates of the penitentiary to Lloyd and his companions before they had had the chance to become acquainted with their turnkeys...
...Evil is too strong a word for this condition, and the cure lies not so much in shutting up as in building up. If unattractive home-life can be made more attractive, the temptation for petty thefts will stop. The Phillips Brooks House has already done much to help,--giving Thanksgiving dinners to families which would have gone without,--and the Cambridge Welfare Society has done its share...
...intelligence needs to be convinced of its essential evil. The parting advice of Washington is impartial and conclusive: "All combinations and associations under whatever plausible character with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities are of fatal tendencies...