Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
...that the unfairness of cheating in examinations is a little more palpable and its consequences may be a little heavier as regards grades; yet this is plainly a difference of degree and not of kind, and it is easily reduced to the absurd by considering the comparative evil of copying three of four dates in an examination, and copying the major part of a thesis, the first of which actions is condemned, while the second is condoned. It is high time that public opinion should awaken to the artificiality of the distinction herein contained; let it brand with their right...
...errors of an unbalanced choice of compositions for a concert whereby one tour de force completely obliterates all the others, or at least totally ruins their effects. Any sensitive concert goer will say how true this is; but luckily, it is for the most part a vanishing evil. Notorious exceptions are the average song-recitals, when the "artist" places songs of all times and nations in a senseless and shameless promiscuity...
Although it is acknowledged that there are good points in the pending legislation, yet, considering the fact that the so-called "trust evil" is far smaller than it was ten years ago, we can well afford to rely wholly on the present laws, and devote the attention of our legislators not to additions thereto, but to the means of more thoroughly carrying them...
...conceivable that, with the rewards for such a competition made excessive, some evil features of the athletic subscription system might arise. As it is, however, men and groups are competing only for recognition as those who have most aided the class in a very necessary way. The system of 1916 in this as in a number of other matters deserves, beyond much praise, close attention from succeeding classes...