Word: evils
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After the period of the Danish invasion, learning among the West Saxons had almost entirely disappeared, and the greatest works of the time were written in a language which the majority of the people barely understood. In an attempt to decrease this evil and make it possible for the common people to have the benefit of the greatest books and best literary production of the time, King Alfred began two distinct tasks. He wished first, to restore the lost learning; and secondly, to put the great books of the world into the mother tongue of his people. The actual work...
...effort to raise the industrial status, and with it the mental and moral conditions of the negro race, that the Institute appeals for the co-operation and aid of those who regard the interests of the black people and the interests of the whole country, which for good or evil, must be indissolubly intertwined with them...
...sudden conversion, and believed true religion to be the slow, gradual growth in moral character that comes from babitual obedience to the highest ideals. His theology rested on the practical nature of religion; he believed that things are good in the measure that they are helpful, that things are evil in the measure that they harm. Dean Everett's great work was in the strong, logical reasoning by which be showed the relations of great religious truths to one another...
...taken thus far are in no way a solution of the question, but merely a slight step in the right direction. The matter is not one between the faculty and the undergraduates--in fact the faculty have been careful to make the undergraduates feel that the solution of the evil is with them entirely; while the undergraduates for their part have done their best to remedy matters, but have failed to understand thoroughly the situation...
Owing to the practice of transferring H. A. A. membership tickets, which has gone on at the different games this season, especially in the Carlisle Indian game and in the game with Pennsylvania it has become necessary to adopt stringent measures to put a stop to this evil...