Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break forth periodically on the air-waves is one to which the University would do well to give considerable attention, if not actual supervision, in order that the public may receive the maximum educational benefit and the best idea of Harvard. The potentialities of these broadcasts for good and evil alike are tremendous...
...treatment, however, and these present the problem. For it is from their ill-intentioned antics that Harvard gets unfavorable publicity among the population, and those who are in the lime-light in an unpleasant way give people who resent the presence of a great University in their midst their evil impression. It seems obvious, then, that the University should deal summarily with men who fail to accept the responsibility of giving Harvard a fair name in the community...
...picture went begging for a buyer for more than five years. ... Its former owner, in the presence of witnesses, offered to sell the picture to me for $80,000. . . . The painting's presence in Philadelphia represents not the intelligence and cultural levels of the general population, but the evil of having an absentee dictator of the local official art situation, who functions principally at the racetracks of Miami, Saratoga and Deauville...
...first of the obstacles to a dependable character," said Dr. Fosdick, "is a sense of guilt. Most of the types of mental derangement are due to this. We do evil secretly and then are afraid that we will be found out publicly. Our evil accumulates an increasing sum of dominance's over us. We who are so free to start are not free to stop...
...Money is the root of all evil," reads one battered inscription discovered yesterday on a desk in Sever six. The signature is "J. P. Morgan...