Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...signed their own death-warrant. But for that one high, courageous soul, the Germans might have swept through Belgium unresisted, smashed the French Army before the British "Old Contemptibles" could have interposed their thin line, and then and there the war would have been won by the forces of evil...
...Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation must provide the remedy...
...scorn of those famaliar with the facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm a good many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember...
...these three universities. The fact that they have publicly adopted a common policy in this matter is in itself a most encouraging sign of the times. The statement has been phrased with the utmost care, and no one should be in any doubt about its real meaning. The evil to which it refers, however, is too subtle to be effectively dealt with by joint rules and regulations alone; it can only be eradicated by the arousing of public sentiment against it so strong that it will no longer be tolerated in the schools. The statement published this morning will serve...
Until recent years, Americans generally have regarded all movements the trend of which was towards compulsion with distinct apprehension. Indeed our rough individualistic pioneer, whose passing is still fresh in the minds of the older generation, looked upon government as an evil necessity, and with many misgivings as to whether it was a necessity at all. With the passing of the frontier however, this reign of blatent lawlessness came to an end, and since that time we have been confronted with a growing spirit of paternalism. During the war, when compulsion was to a large extent, absolutely essential...