Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movie can accomplish such wonders in an evil way, its potentialities for virtue must be equal. It is undeniably the most direct means of appealing to the people, throughout the country. Professor Baker has been quoted as saying that if he could be given absolute control of the moving-picture industry and its out-let for three years, he could raise the country's intelligence ten percent, and its morals in proportion. Whether he is right or not would depend on his method of atback. Obviously, if the movie lost its interest and became purely a moralizing agent, it would...
...students will follow the simple precept of locking doors and ground floor windows when they go out. Furthermore all suspicious individuals should be reported at once; and if any losses are discovered, no delay should be made in notifying police head quarters. Only by cooperation of all can the evil be eliminated...
...best a mere indication of whether a man has the groundwork for a college education. They are in no way a test of his fitness to build on that groundwork--his character or his abstract ability to study. They have long been accepted grudgingly as a necessary evil; one of their worst faults is an incentive to study for the examinations rather than for knowledge, and this undesirable feature the Phi Beta Kappa prize would seem to emphasize...
...only is this "new" policy far from new, but furthermore it is doubtful whether paternalism at Harvard is an absolute evil. A liberal tradition is all very well; but it implies a general degree of maturity in the students considerably higher than that which we know to exist now. Far too many men enter college as "prep. school" students, and far too many remain such for two and three years, to render advisable an entirely liberal attitude towards them. And if a certain degree of paternalism is effective in maturing these men, it does not on the other hand work...
...World War. In the battle the private soldier knew little of the progress of the fight, but his faith in headquarters kept up his morale. "In the battle of life," said Dean Brown, "each of us is like the soldier; we cannot tell how the campaign against evil is going, but we have faith in headquarters which enables us to keep up our morale...