Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton Triangle Club will take the longest tour ever arranged for a college dramatic organization in the Christmas holidays. The schedule arranged for "The Evil Eye," this year's musical production, takes in thirteen cities, necessitating the club's travelling about 5,000 miles. The usual spring performance will also be given in Princeton, and probably some other nearby city, making 25 performances...
...following extract taken from the New York Evening Post is particularly pertinent in regard to an evil which seems to be gaining firmer hold on the colleges. It discusses the growing evidence that colleges are willing to make professional athletes of schoolboys in order to induce them to play on their teams...
...rival college and their regret that such a player as LeGore, admired for his skill and respected for his personal qualities, should no longer match himself against Harvard men. With warm admiration for the Yale authorities in athletics, some of us yet believe that the reform of an evil, provided the evil is not a crime, begins best after clear warning, and that the penalty is wisely applied first to those whose transgression is as conscious as it is unmistakable. Yale has shown that she will risk severity toward herself rather than unfairness toward a rival. We wish...
...days must be spent in transit; and this makes a journey home out of the question. Even for men who live in the Mississippi Valley the trip can only be the briefest. And the one or two extra days allowed by the Office is not enough to remedy the evil,--even if consistency may be admitted in assuming that western men can afford to miss a few hours instruction the omission of which would be fatal to eastern...
...Storey considered Dana as an anti-slavery leader. "Stated briefly" he said, "Dana's position was that slavery was so great an evil that it could not be tolerated in territories where it did not exist, but that under the constitution we could not interfere with it in the states where it was already established. This was the platform on which the Republican party was founded and upon which it made the contests in 1856 which resulted in the defeat of Fremont, and, in 1860, when its victory made Abraham Lincoln president. In 1848, however, there were few who were...