Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reconciled. Dorothy Cumming, whose contract as the "Blessed Virgin" in the cinema play The King of Kings forbids her from the "appearance of evil" for at least seven years; with the father of her two children, Frank Elliott, from whom she was divorced last December...
...impression conveyed by said article is one of a meaningless, evil-smelling chaos of ugly beasts, cruelly handled by ill-bred people...
...more than a necessary evil. It is a great law of nature. . . . War has always accompanied life and will not disappear until life on this planet becomes extinct...
Likewise the two-hour period of manual work is out of place in a college. In an ordinary institution of liberal arts the student has no particular need of such training; in technical and agricultural schools, his entire work is in this line. Such specialization may be an evil, but it is a necessary preparation for a specialized world...
...experience of American colleges with tutoring schools, and bureaus specializing in such cramming is warning enough that here is one feature of English education which is totally undesirable. There seems to be no greater evil than systematic cramming in the European usage, in this instance, analogous to the American custom. The effects on the college student are stultifying enough to enable one to imagine the mental inertia involved in submitting a plastic child to processes of intellectual indigestion similar to those obtained by patronizing a progressive tutoring school in this country...