Word: evils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forensics and themes, deserves a careful reading. The same idea must have occurred to every senior and junior taking elective courses in which theses are required. To be sure, the man who has three or four theses, as the Advocate assumes, is not the average man, so the evil of the present system is not so great as it pictures. Nevertheless the pressure is heavy and its lightening would undoubtedly improve the character of the work done...
...received from Professor Richards, of Yale, a man who has always taken a deep interest in athletics and who thoroughly understands the objections to "professionalism," we find the words: "I see no harm in the Nine playing with professional nines. As far as I can see, they get no evil from such play, and learn a good lesson of ball-playing from the best masters...
...Word. From the first we obtain light by learning what other people think of us; if we know that certain bad people approve of our ways then we can feel sure that we are not entirely free from wrong,- there is something in us in sympathy with evil...
...debate for the affirmative was continued by J. P. Nields, '89. He said he intended to point out existing evils and show how they could be remedied. He also dwelt at length upon the evil of giving the state legislatures so much power as well as upon minority elections. He said that the proposed system gave every voter a sense of his responsibility, and destroyed the chance of a dark horse...
...professionals." Likely enough the students would learn their sports from the best teachers, as most people of sense do learn. There are few attainments of body or mind that have not to be taught the learner by persons more proficient than himself, and it places no mark of evil on the teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There is no tennis court without its professional "marker" in England or any other country, and that in a game distinctly less savoring...