Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence of the fault may be taken from less consequential things as well as from more. The presence of an additional button on the coat beyond that pictured in current tailor...
...given the University is two-fifths of the aggregate bequests in the evil. Although no action has yet been taken by University officials, it is presumed that the money will go to the University Cancer Commission, founded in the for the investigation of the cause and the treatment of cancer. This commission carries on work in the laboratories of the Medical School, and at the Collies P. Huntington Memorial Hospital. The present chairman of the Cancer Commission is Dr. R. B. Greenough '92, who is also Surgeon in Charge of the Huntington Hospital...
Unemployment, nowadays, is a national evil; but at present there is a local aspect of it which is of more concern to Ithacans and Cornellians than the national problem. The Cornell University Employment Bureau in Barnes Hall is faced with hundreds of applicants for work, with very few positions to fill. There are many students in the University who are dependent on what they can earn to pay their way through college. Their predicament is no slight one if they cannot find work...
...first of these texts is a denunciation: the second is a promise. The statements, however, are only two different aspects of a single truth. No one thinks that he is himself putting darkness for light, evil for good, or bitter for sweet; but every one is sure that some other people are doing so, and, at the present time, that many people are doing it in a very exaggerated and dangerous way. Great numbers of good men and women are seriously alarmed today at ideas that are being propagated and they think that by shutting their own ears...
...true that the war came because the people of Germany in their opinions put evil for good, darkness for light and bitter for sweet, then we can only say of the calamities that have come upon their country as Lincoln said of the woes of the Civil War, "True and just are thy judgements altogether." We can add with him. "Let us judge not that we be not judged"; or rather let us beware that by harboring in our minds unsound opinions we fall not into like condemnation...