Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN-A modern realistic version of Tartuffe, with a southern religious fanatic working evil in the name of good, assisted by a cinema-esque flood...
...main trouble with the volume of litigation is thus not with the courts, but with the legislatures. The evil resides not merely in the number of laws. It is in badly drawn laws. It is also in the compromises of legislation where the contests of opposing policies are satisfied by ambiguous phrases which transmit the difficulties of legislative bodies to the courts, who are left with the burdensome task of discovering the legislative intent, when actually there has been no defined legislative intent...
...applies to but a small extent. However I am not sophisticated enough to believe that life in any college is as bad as the author describes. A piece of writing--I almost said work of literature--is necessarily a criticism of life and as such must stress good and evil in the proportion in which they appear. In this book we are shown only the bad side, creating an impression which appears to be false...
...attempt of the author to show the evil side of college life so that someone else may come along and remedy it, is, I think, laudable. However in the zeal for reality one must remember that even Truth has its place. One has only to read Swift's poem on a lady's dressing room to appreciate the extreme to which realism may be carried. Desirability will always remain a paramount condition. Our bad side is incidental and our faith in college should be great...
...Kleine has perfected a cure which will soon be announced. In 1895 Surgeon General Sir David Bruce showed that the parasite (try-panasoma gambiense) was communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved...