Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80. "The fundamental evil of this country is the lack of sufficiently general appreciation of the responsibility of citizenship. Nothing would do more to remedy this evil than the kind of training in citizenship, in patriotism, and in efficiency, which would come as a result of universal service on the Swiss or Australian models, or rather on a combination of the two adapted to our needs. Between the ages of 18 and 21 there should be a month of actual and continuous service in the field with the colors. Such universal training would give...
...which he came to this country. The lecture was originally scheduled for Andover Chapel, but was so overcrowded that the audience was forced to migrate to the New Lecture Hall at the last minute. To avoid a similar occurrence Dr. Jacks will give his lecture on "The Challenge of Evil' and Humanity" at 2.30 o'clock today in Emerson D instead of Andover Chapel as was previously announced. At 8 o'clock this evening he will give his last lecture, The Challenge of Death" in the New Lecture Hall...
...their mother? She, indeed, was the mother of all good and of all evil. She defended the old regime against the new. She defended her children from themselves. She understood...
Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...
...final act turns into an indignation meeting against the forces of evil, at which the audience itself become the seething citizenry. The first night gathering entered hilariously into the spirit of this trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude...