Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases far better than do most teachers in their classrooms, is incalculable," Dr. Kennedy writes. "If that influence is good, making for discipline and inculcation of sportsmanship, the coach becomes in a real sense an assisting agent in the processes of the student's education. If that influence is evil, permitting false values and a repudiation of sportsmanship to govern the boy's point of view, the coach becomes a sinister, and perhaps a powerful underminer of the high purpose of the college...
...ourselves to lose any part from this structure of patriotic unity. I make no plea for leniency toward those who are criminal or vicious, are open enemies of society and are not prepared to accept the true standards of our citizenship. By tolerance I do not mean indifference to evil. I mean respect for different kinds of good. Whether one traces his Americanism back two or three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came...
...There have been and will be lapses and discouragement, surface storms and disturbances. The shallows will murmur, but the deep is still. We shall be made aware of the boisterous and turbulent forces of evil about us seeking the things which are temporal. But we shall also be made aware of the still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power...
...high school instructor. In this way and no other, he says can such traditions be evoked as will make the United States a homogeneous nation. Mr. Joyce believes that the disillusionment of the child brought up on myth-history is unimportant to the country, and will have no permanently evil effect on the patriotism so inculcated...
...prove his point he quoted from the Bible "a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," and went on to show that evolution was a reversion to pagan pantheism...