Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human beings of today are demonstrating the old brutal principle of might is right. By force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit. Indulging in an ordinary butchery of the human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal and imperishable. Just as love begets love so does love beget hate.' Hence he inculcates the necessity of using 'right...
Granting, then, the existence of an evil, what are the reasons and what are the remedies? Mr. Lamont believes that the private school man has the money, the training, the leisure and the inclination to spend his time on extra-curriculum pursuits. But there is something more fundamental. The average under graduate knows that "success" in college is not attained by scholastic records and he believes that the same is true of life. There is no reason for him to wish to belong to the Phi Beta Kappa; ambition will inspire him with every desire to succeed in extra-curriculum...
...always gets the worst of it in reports. But as a matter of fact the character of men and of students probably changes very little in the passage of a generation, and it seems to be stretching the point to say that drunkenness has increased much even since "that evil day" when the Volstead Act was passed. The stories which "old grads" love to tell, the cartoons which Lampy printed long ago, the accounts of celebrations after former football games, all seem to indicate that the flowing bowl was as freely partaken of then...
...spreads the story as fast as it may, that is responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are regarded as merely one continuous "gold coast...
...national interests. Such power becomes greater than that of King and Parliament or of President and Congress. For a while, in the hands of a public spirited man like Lord Northcliffe or Major Astor, the owner of the London Times, it may have no ill effects. But in an evil moment it may fall into the grasp of some one who will use it only for his personal benefit...