Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...probably less profiteering in America in this war than in any other we have ever fought, and more fine examples of sacrifice of personal interest on the part of large business. What we have chiefly got to do is to clear out the last remnant of the old evil. This can best be done by treating a few conspicuous examples as traitors are treated...
...iota "literally robbing her students" (!!!), there would be some evidence thereof. And it is well known that any member of the University, from the oldest professor to the youngest Freshman would find the present College Administration open-minded and eager to consider his complaint, and energetic to remedy the evil. If my own experience is significant, and it can hardly be other, our present administrative officers are perhaps without exception beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully to foster that elemental sentiment of gratitude...
...industries, science plays a leading role in the present tragdy of the world. Science itself is, of course, neither moral nor immoral, neither for war nor for peace. It is merely a method, embodying far-reaching principles,--a method that is applicable equally to good or to evil. Thus we find science today contributing impartially to the means of destroying life and of preserving it, and to the modes of inflicting pain and of relieving human misery...
...soldier-philosopher, nearer to the horrors than any of us, sees the war as the averter of evil. Good it may bring; but that is speculative. Ill it has prevented; of that, as he writes in his trench with death and devastation around him, he feels assured...