Word: evils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...particular virtue. Organized sports are preferable to compulsory gymnasium exercise, but the cure is not in substituting one compulsion for another. The alternative of the fifth proposal, prohibition of participation in successive sports, seems more practical than that of limiting a man to one sport. It eliminates the evil of continuous training, without depriving the versatile athlete unnecessarily of a real enjoyment which he may find in intercollegiate athletic competition. The remaining points merit serious consideration. Harvard might well lead the East in acting along the lines suggested by the Middle West...
...from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects the writer--and this is at once his most salient and vulnerable point this tide is too enormous, too appalling, to be accepted as fate. Some place between matriculation and the commencement platform there is an evil--one which has no place in the lives of what in all correctness may be presumed to be the hope of the nation...
...Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals has its companion, not completely ancillary good in the particular training involved. The Harvard "Ask Me Another" is essentially a valuable experience, a creditable experiment...
...King of Kings. The film, ostensibly sacred, is not inspired. Jt presents Christ in terms most commonly understood, most easily loved: a kindly Being Who performed miracles for others yet suffered physical agonies most heart-rending sooner than save Himself, The necessity for the suffering lies in the evil genius of Caiaphas, the high priest. But Producer Cecil B. DeMille's emphasis throughout is upon the pictured Christ's ability to straighten crooked feet, restore sight, raise the dead, upon the horribly graphic depictions of tortures...
...economics and of vital statistics. In part we of the States are apathetic to the difficulties of the population problem because inordinate stores of natural resources, available at a time when scientific discovery promoted rapid exploitation, have made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point...