Word: evils
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evil effects, if any, are not visible in the men who actually row, run, or walk...
...article we find a theory of education of which the culminating triumph would be a character like Spinoza, The present interest in athletics may be pushed to an extreme; if so, it is but a healthy reaction and will soon right itself. We must try to check the evil without resigning the good; for, at all events, the "muscular Christian" is preferable to the languid swell. The present state of things - in Harvard, at least - comes entirely from the general indifference of society to success in study. Until it is more of a disgrace to be dropped than...
...somewhat trivial, yet it must be considered that no very momentous results can be expected from such a purely passive kind of eavesdropping. I have not, as yet, discovered in any footfalls the slightest whisper of scandal. If one "hears no good of himself," he at least hears no evil...
...article in the last Advocate in reference to the objectionable editorial of the Transcript is so admirable an exponent of the popular feeling among undergraduates as regards false representations in public journals, that it arouses in me a desire to attempt an exposition of the sources of these evil communications, and to suggest some means by which at least a diminution of such occurrences may be effected. And it is only because the writer sees that the increase of such publications is likely to effect some serious results that he feels at liberty to broach the subject...
...These evils, I am glad to say, the Advocate intends to correct. May I, without presumption, urge you also to join heartily in the good work? The necessity for action is only too evident when we reflect that by following our base example, and letting the ignoble body attain the ascendency over the glorious mind, hundreds will be doomed to utter darkness. Your contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest...