Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is at present, moreover, another evil which may be corrected by the new system." The theses and reports which are of such value in advanced courses are rather apt to fall due at times when there are examinations in the offing, or when the regular reading is just getting under way. As a result the student may well find that he has a report, regular reading for courses, tutorial work, and an examination all imminent in the near future. Thus he is unable to give as much time and thought to his report as he should...
...Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love...
...agreement originally signed between Harvard and Yale on May 16 declared that scouting itself was not an evil, and that the coaches should freely exchange all plays used in preliminary games. On May 26 Mr. Bingham offered a similar arrangement to all the scheduled rivals of the eleven this fall...
...prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists glory in the equalities already proved...
...general the Dartmouth athletic body has shown good judgment. It has accepted the most important suggestion, has admitted an open question and possible need for action in regard to the second in importance, and has turned down the one which remedied the lesser evil and which gave fewest indications of a practical improvement. Every revolutionary plan can stand some modification, the danger always being that the modifying process completely devitalize the original. The result in this case still retains much of its former power along with a few valuable additions...