Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON'S purpose to stimulate constructive thinking. Nothing is easier than to say this or that is not as it should be. To devise a practicable plan for correcting an evil or an abuse is a problem calling for the most careful thought. Now is the time to produce some of the good ideas thrashed out in "bull sessions" or cherished in a private dream...
...that Prohibition has become an accepted fact in the Nation's life and no one dreams any longer of taking a drink, the reformers have turned their attention to the evil of smoking. As steps to its complete abolition, they propose prohibition of smoking in public places, especially restaurants and theatres, the omission of smoking scenes from moving pictures, and forbidding the advertising of tobacco products...
This whole gripping scholastic drama is a farce. It is absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous. There is no place for it in a true school of humanism. As long as the only method of university instruction was that by courses, as system of marks and grading was a necessary administrative evil. But now that the tutorial system has risen; now that it begins to fulfill the promises of its advocates; now that its usefulness and power of future development are every-where recognized, the present system of and emphasis on grades is a galling chain fettering the future to a dead...
Equally unjust is the system whereby the grades in a course are averaged; the average, be it 82 or 56 is taken as a "C" medium; and marks are announced which give no indication of individual accomplishment. Fortunately, this second evil seems to be on the ebb. The first; however, is rising steadily, and deserves all the condemnation that can be heaped upon it. The grade must be made to depend not on the relative position of a student in an arbitrary scale, but on his absolute merit as displayed in his work...
...opium subject were the U. S., Britain, France, the Netherlands. The reason for this is not remote; the U. S. has the Philippines, Britain has India, France has large interests in the Orient, the Netherlands administer an empire in the East Indies. In all these countries, the opium evil is felt to a great extent, and a sincere desire is felt in common for a satisfactory eradication of one of the world's greatest scourges; but differences of opinion arose on the means by which a scotching of opium production is to be realized. These differences were capitalized...