Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...initiative and referendum are correct in theory and also in practice for it has been shown that they have remedied the evil conditions found in legislatures of today. In Oregon, South Dakota, Missouri and other states where they have been adopted they have prevented bad legislation and at the same time insured good laws. A contrast of conditions in these states before and after the adoption of the initiative and referendum shows the great benefit which has resulted in the adoption. The legislative conditions of today are real and serious. The initiative and referendum have a record of proved success...
...immeasurably superior to that which preceded and followed. Miss Gragg, as the wife, was strong and convincing, perhaps her manner might have been more spontaneous, less charted, but her voice and facial expression were excellent. Mr. Woodward represented a man of stone, unemotional, silent; Mr. Searle a sly, evil, cowardly lover; both were well-nigh perfect. "Alaric Jourdan's House" was a brilliant achievement...
...omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also capable of great evil to the College as a whole...
...been found that in many of the cases of Social Service work done under the direction of the Brooks House Association neither the settlements nor the Harvard volunteers quite understand each other's point of view. The conference is being held in hope of remedying this evil and large number of settlement workers and members of the Faculty have volunteered to be present...
Governor Wilson pointed out with remarkable clearness that the majority of the present day evils arise not from the fundamentals of the "present system", but from its abuses. The cry of the earnest, over-zealous socialist, therefore, is "Abolish a system which permits of such atrocities." The cry of every honest, conservative reformer, on the other hand, is "Enforce the present system in all the purity of its fundamental principles, and the evils will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive...