Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest evil that can befall higher education in America is for a clique of dramatists, no matter of what complexion, to dominate the colleges. In a recent report upon the "Freedom of Teaching in Science, presented before the American Association of University Professors, it was shown beyond all doubt that the one-eyed pedant, Intolerance, is tightening his grip upon American education...
...When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague to withdraw the entire speech...
...makes will appear eminently justified. In so far as his efforts are motivated by a genuine desire to keep the ideals of the University above those of a, commercialized America they will react with approval only. But the student body can not commend his procedure. He is fighting an evil--vague, intangible, conjectural--with a far greater evil--concrete, threatening, and ever sinister...
Last week, one Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.* permitted herself to be interviewed by newspaper reporters about a book she was just completing to set forth the "unquestionably" evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles upon infant minds. Mother Goose† herself was the object of Mrs. Stoner's determined attack and the reporters were told, in no uncertain tones, that...
...Child labor is too important an evil to allow it to be held off by the formal argument of State's Rights. The Amendment curtails State's Rights only insofar as it would set a minimum standard...