Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard...
...greatest evils the educator must face is cramming for examinations. Knowledge amassed by high pressure cramming is short-lived, and of little premanent-value. It was hoped that the tutorial system would eliminate this evil. It seems rather to have changed its form only. The tutor means little in the life of the sophomore and junior. Considering him as a necessary evil, improvident students are glad to excuse the tutor's attentions when he says he must devote most of his time to seniors. But when they in turn become seniors, the tutor takes on a new meaning. With anxiety...
...There is almost everything to help a student go wrong," the report declares, "and almost nothing to hinder him or her from going wrong. There are none of us who pose for moral reformers. There are none of us who are looking for the evil side of life, but enough has come to our attention to make us feel that some effort should be made to give the student as much encouragement to do right as to do wrong...
...good city government. In consequence there is hardly an American city which has not a Tweed or a "Hinky-Dink" in its rogues' gallery, and a "Red Mike" in its mayor's chair. By arousing ciyic interest the National Municipal League has done much to overcome this evil...
...page 1 TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, you refer to Methodism as "that sect." I am aware of the very general meaning of the word "sect," but you cannot be ignorant of the evil connotation of that term. A recent dictionary of recognized authority makes this distinction: "Sect is an opprobrious and denomination an honorable term for the same body...