Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columbia has an evil all its own in the kind of student who is content to taken only one or two courses and either win a degree by endurance or let his studies become incidental to other interest. Precisely the converse of the problem has been encountered in the Harvard Graduate Schools, where the difficulty has been in finding means to bring the graduate student out of his cubicle. The evil of the paucity of outside interests has been in a measure allayed by such activities as the inter-mural sport leagues and the Graduate Societies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...impossible for anyone, particularly a young woman, to fly towards Europe without incurring such publicity that an appearance upon the Stage becomes an anti-climax; and even if this were not so, what is the public eye which some people still regard as synonymous with the evil eye--compared to a small but substantial fortune which will enable one to enjoy obscurity for life if it be desired...
...Carens is, of course, a very welcome guest at the H.A.A. He is to be envied and is by the other Harvard correspondents his "entree." Perhaps the fact that he always has something nice to say, no matter how badly the team played, no matter what evil deeds were done, may have something to do with his having the goodwill and confidence of the Harvard sports authorities...
...literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes as Faith in Life itself,' 'a sovereign insight into Life's meaning,' whatever redeems life from the power of evil, whatever gives it freedom and greatness must be true...
...confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks), on its reverse side and will receive in exchange the royal initials "G. R." (Georgius Rex), as will the two-shilling pieces...