Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...necessary, first of all, he said, to define clearly the word "tendency." The affirmative advances this definition: a tendency is that which tends to cause, whether it does or does not proceed to an effect. Hence, it is unnecessary to prove that trade unionism would necessarily lead to more evil than good in the future. The probable tendency to evil is all that need be established...
...Yeats's works include among many others: "The Wanderings of Oisin;" "The Wind Among the Reeds;" "The Shadowy Waters;" "In the Seven Woods;" "The Celtic Twilight;" "The Secret Rose;" "Plays for an Irish Theatre;" and "Ideals of Good and Evil." His "Land of Heart's Desire" was produced two years ago in Boston and attracted considerable attention...
...addition to the obviously grave error of giving outside parties tickets before all Harvard applications had been filled, the writers can see the possibility of an evil still worse. What is to prevent speculators buying an unlimited number of season tickets at the beginning of the year, using fictitious names to attain that end, then renting the tickets for the preliminary games and finally applying for two Yale game seats by virtue of their privilege as season ticket holders? The Yale game tickets secured, the men can charge any price for them and there results speculation which the management cannot...
...added importance from the fact that in the future no class except the Freshman is to be allowed to debate with another school. The Freshmen will continue to hold the annual debate with Exeter. This action abolishing the other outside class debates is designed to do away with the evil of having Harvard class teams constantly represented in the newspapers as University teams. Since these debates have been abolished, however the serious preliminary training for University debaters will be gained in the interclass debates, and the competition for places on the interclass teams should therefore be proportionately more keen...
...privilege American citizenship conveys at this particular time. The country has nothing to fear from without. Its only danger is from within. The citizens of this country who are indifferent to politics, who shun public duties, who avoid the stress of elections, are the modern traitors, as dangerous and evil as the traitors of history. The country needs strong young men who will give richly of their money, their time and their strength. The dangers of a democracy are of little account when such men rally to the support of the nation: when corruption is brought to light, when wrong...