Word: evils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States pension system will be a more burdensome evil than the standing armies of Europe.- 2. Actual sufferers have been sufficiently recompensed.- 3. Proposed legislation is extravagant and wasteful.- 4. It is impossible to estimate how much will be needed to meet the demands of this bill: Nation, 44, p. 92; President's veto of Feb. 14, 1887; Public Opinion...
...writing the above I am actuated by no feeling of vindictiveness. My object in writing is to call attention to an evil which has no right to exist; to condemn a policy which I know is impairing the usefulness of a good society...
...with much regret that the CRIMSON finds itself compelled to call attention to a great and growing evil connected with Memorial Hall-namely, the prevalence during meal hours of disorderly conduct on the part of some of the members of the University. The tendency to disorder was noticed early last fall, and attempts were made to check it by placing marked copies of the rules of the Association on the tables where the disorder occurred. These attempts failed and the evil has steadily increased. The offences consist mainly in the throwing of articles of food between members of the same...
...writer of the communication has accused us of careless about investigation and eagerness to condemn. We trust he will see that his words turn back upon himself. The CRIMSON does not criticise for the sake of criticising, but because it hopes to eradicate evil and bring about good. If men would take its editorials in the spirit in which they are written, and above all, would be less hot-headed in jumping to unwarranted conclusions, much ill feeling would be spared...
...George A. Gordon preached in the chapel last evening from the text found in the 91st Psalm: "He that dwelleth in the secret places of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." The striking comparisons of the Psalm were enlarged upon by the speaker. Evil is likened to a snare. As the hare speeding along its accustomed path is caught suddenly in the noose of the hunter, so human beings are assailed unawares through their desires and habits by temptations of every kind Again, evil is like a pestilence. Society is filled with moral corruption...