Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near as he can to the line of publicity for the sake of popular morality, a question of ethics both interesting and perplexing confronts, the few thinking beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals and a reign of petty terror. Yet it is rather unfortunate that the issue could not have been more clear cut and satisfying. Wowseries are often quite as tire...
Barrett Williams '28, who will be the first speaker for the University, will hold as his chief contention that education ossifies the mind. F. W. Lorenzen '28 intends to enlarge on the evil of specialization which has grown out of the modern educational system. The last speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, will broach the issue in a somewhat more humorous vein. His arguments are based on the assumption that people are becoming too educated to be either comfortable or agreeable. He is also going to decry the decay of modern literature, putting the responsibility for this decline...
Defeated in his attempt to prohibit all forms of "long and short haul," Senator Gooding promptly introduced another bill to prevent "the evil" in some particular cases. His new bill is designed to prohibit railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...minister. But they were all Methodists and I was a Baptist. So I heard few of their sermons, received few of their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories, the Life and Times of Peter Rabbit, and an excellent treatise by Grimm on laeries...
...this respect, the Caucasian is indeed more fortunate than the American. The worst of his matrimonial evils was the fluctuation of market value due to monopoly control, but the American has to contend with a greater evil, one that defies government interference. This iniquity, the Economist calls cutthroat competition. Surely, the American Romeo, who engages in this sort of financial competition with his rivals when the supply of Romeos is great and that of Juliets small, would prefer to hand over 25, 30, or even 50 dollars to the bride's father as a cheap...