Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great problem of modern society is to find the individual place and ideal for the menial laborer whose life has become simply a cog in some great industrial machine. Machinery should not subordinate humanity. This is the great evil of modern democracy, caused by the tendency to regard labor, not as a pleasure which fortunately affords a livelihood, but as a means of obtaining money alone...
...LECTURE. "Good and Evil Results of Athletics. Dr. Edward H. Nichols. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...complaint is frequently put forth that good fellowship and broad acquaintance among Harvard undergraduates are lacking. That there is some truth in this complaint few will deny. And though we have labored patiently to avoid this evil, the various schemes and methods thus far proposed and tried out have not been particularly successful; especially have the class meetings and smokers been ineffective. Now there is one conspicuous reason for this, namely, our inability to remember for this, namely, our inability to remember so many strange names presented to us at one time. For most of us it is comparatively easy...
...Cable '09 spoke of the opporbrium on scholarship which unquestionably existed or had existed. If such marks of interest as the present occasion had been more frequent, the Faculty would not have had to ask a College committee to investigate this evil. As a reason, it seemed evident that when all interest was devoted to athletics, scholarship should be left out. Undergraduates, however, are coming to realize more and more the close relation between vigorous effort in College and success in after-life. This is the attitude which will do away with any opprobrium...
...four great motives underlying Jesus's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount are: First, the unity of the inner life,--every part is so bound together that good or evil anywhere permeates the whole. Second, the fulfillment of the law of duty. Third, the brotherhood of man. Here Dr. King emphasized the fact that we are all brothers regardless of position, nationality or race, and that we must act as such. Fourth, God is our Father. This is the great motive underlying all other motives; it is the conviction out of which the others spring that love...