Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social Ethics A, Human Relations, which is a new course this year, being given by Doctor R. C. Cabot '89, may be taken as a half course in the second half year. The other new half courses which are open to undergraduates include Social Ethics 16, The Kingdom of Evil, of which Doctor Cabot will also be in charge, and Social Ethics 6 and 15, two courses conducted by Assistant Professor R. F. Foerster '06 and dealing respectively with Unemployment and Recent Theories of Social Reform...
...many evils contributing to our present array of social problems, none is more dangerous than illiteracy, which not only is wide-spread in the United States, but is rapidly increasing. Many of our labor troubles can be directly traced to the appalling prevalence of this evil; it is largely responsible for the existence of our defective and criminal classes; it multiplies agitators and radicals; it is the cause of thousands of industrial accidents...
...human interests, the religious is one of the oldest and most influential. Historically it has been fruitful of both good and evil. It has inspired some of the worst crimes as well as some of the noblest enterprises of mankind. When aroused to activity it has been sometimes an uplifting and sometimes a degrading influence. Its power for good or evil is so great that it imperatively needs wise guidance. A learned minister today is one who is sufficiently familiar with the history of the religious interest to direct its activity into ways of present helpfulness. To this...
...readjustment, someone must suffer. As Senator Edge of New Jersey says, "The only durable and infallible barometer of business is the law of supply and demand, and to set up an artificial and false structure for the maintenance of prices, because certain industries are suffering, is only postponing the evil day when all business industry, including farmers, will have to face the music...
...ingenious scheme does not even merit serious consideration, and, unless the University falls into far more evil days than the present, it is to be hoped that such a method of self-advertisement will not be given more than passing notice...