Word: evils
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with whom we would not care to associate. For a long time professional trainers were considered indispensable to the crew, but they have been superseded, and with good results. Why cannot the same thing be done in base-ball matters? It must be borne in mind that the evil effects, if any, of this custom would not affect us so nearly as the reputation of the College in the country at large...
...College authorities are powerless to do more than keep such an evil in check, as in past years, by the painful method of dismissing detected students, - usually not the most culpable, - thus perhaps blighting their prospects for life. The responsibility or the credit for breaking up such a custom must rest with the students themselves, especially with the members of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes...
...these high-flown and often utterly ridiculous descriptions of a future state were simply indifferent as a means for good or evil, or if they combined in themselves harmlessness for the hearers and satisfaction for the abnormal state of the preacher's mind, we could contentedly refrain from even a passing remark on the waste of time and effort...
...pledge, - a rather violent form of conversion in its true light. Though "Fair Harvard" may overdraw the extent and violence of hazing, there is no reason why it should be pursued even in a mild form. All license leads to abuse, and should we countenance "roughing," the inherent evil of the system would be sure to show itself sooner or later in an extreme form. Since we have emerged from this time-honored abuse, let us have the independence not to fall into it again...
...writer next informs us, and no doubt on excellent authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition...