Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...read. Some of the college papers are eyesores typographically, others read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect it has upon the students of the college need not be seriously considered. But what effect it has upon students in preparatory schools is a thing that should not be lost sight of by the college authorities. Most...
There seems to be no question that the sophomores are attacking a real evil. The club system, says the Daily Princetonian, has "limited fellowship in a way which is not only exceedingly harmful to the individual, but which also exercises a pernicious effect upon the university's endeavor to turn out undergraduates who shall be best fitted for positions of honor and responsibility in the nation." According to the resigning seniors the system has "discouraged individuality of thought," "created a set of artificial standards," and "diverted the finances, energy and attention of both graduates and undergraduates from the curriculum...
...pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much of our progress toward more freedom of opportunity and more enjoyment of human rights would be arrested. Such constructive undertakings as the Constitutional Convention in this state would go by the board. The war against poverty and disease and evil would give place to a war against men. The large percentage of American industrial workers who are paid no more than $400 a year, when the living wage is $1,000, would continue the same living death. How can we decently visit such violent wrath upon the Germans, when their wrongs against...
...then simply lie back and say that all of the belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous man and a thief, because they both desire a neighbor's property...
...submitted that such compulsion would be neither undemocratic nor un-Christian. All compulsion is not abhorrent to democracy and Christianity. Taxes are universally compulsory--and the payment of them may be against the conscience of some--but they are merely regarded as a necessary evil. Taxes are one thing which the individual owes the state. Military service is another, and the compulsion of a man to do his duty to the state is justified--even in a democracy...