Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your editorial Friday, in which you took a stand against the importance of football in college, I should like to day that I think your six points were badly chosen and that you are seeking the wrong remedy for what I fail to see is such a great evil anyway. Lack of space prevents me from going very deeply into my arguments, but I am willing to go into any of them more fully at your request...
...rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service, representation in the League of Nations, and equality with other dominions. Then, too, it would seem, from the evidence available, that after all it is the Moslem, and not the Hindu, who is the real evil genius of the whole difficulty. Perhaps the only way out of this curious tangle lies in a temporary resort to force, together with a defiance of Mohammedan threats. At all events, this is almost certain to be the policy if a conservative takes Montagu's place in the British Cabinet...
Censorship may be for a while a power for good, but it is fully as apt eventually to become a power for evil, so far as the future of the American drama is concerned. We have here now a new school of playwrights turning out work of a distinctive type which bids fair to increase in depth and vigour; should a board of censors whatever its motives, be turned loose in this field, who can foretell the result? It has been shown here in our own Workshop that it takes many years to train an audience to be intelligently critical...
...leaves, sometimes on another leaf like the elephant-ear or burdock--these being unaccountably preferred for public writings because of their cumber-some size Now it came to pass (as they say in the fairy stories) that one season the burdock leaves all withered, and the sun-prophets prophesied evil, declaring that the almighty Sun was withered the leaves because of displeasure at what was written thereon. So the rulers of the Inca realm issued a proclamation from Tampu-Tocco (their centre of administration, meaning "tavern with windows") declaring that all public documents and private writings should be destroyed...
...remembered that the Circle of the Elders at the university were also priests of the Sun-god. Clearly, then, what was written on the burdock by members of their sacred caste could not be displeasing to the god, and did not need to be destroyed, to ward off evil, as did the popular writings. Furthermore, we can hardly conceive of a university func- tioning without a written language; and we know how loth the Inca people would have been to hinder in any way the workings of their beloved and revered institution of learning. Therefore it seems safe to conclude...