Word: evils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unhealthy state of the basement of Weld to which attention is called in a communication is highly inexcusable. While we are convinced that it is only necessary to call the attention of the proper authorities to this evil in order to have it remedied, we cannot refrain from condemning their negligence which gave rise to the nuisance. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
...verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work is evil...
...mixture of civilizations, though it brings diverse opinions, should not unsettle our convictions. We should weigh the old and new ways; we should "prove all things, holding to that which is good, rejecting all that is evil...
...this evil to be remedied? If a man has the face to lie to the Dean about his circumstances, I see no way of action but that the Dean take him to task. That is to say, I think that the college authorities should institute a committee on scholarships, which should judge whether a man's evident style of living entitles him to pecuniary aid or not; such a committee, I admit, would have odious duties, but a crying evil would be remedied to a great extent, at least...
...under the elective system men are tempted to, and actually do, take a "soft" courses with the expectation of getting high marks, and so "freezing" on to a big fat scholarship. This has become so large an evil that the high scholars almost invariably shun very valuable but difficult courses, except as extras...