Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wars of propaganda and wars of reprisal. The causes of war that weigh on the world are already heavy enough without France wanting to add to them with a doctrinal crusade, even for ideas that France believes right and just, even against systems that she believes false and evil...
...must avoid aloofness from the outer world. She has, with fluctuations, been a dominating force, in the past, in national and international affairs. Today she is trying earnestly to face the new problems which have arisen. We may confidently predict that, in doing so, she will avoid the evil of attempting to teach her future social leaders what to think, instead of how to think. Throughout her history, Harvard has kept a unique record in encouraging independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look at the records of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event...
...bald Marc Rucart, onetime journalist, now Minister of Justice in the Blum Cabinet, had an important announcement for humanitarians throughout the world last week. After months of private discussion the new Left Wing French Cabinet was about to correct a longstanding evil. The penal colony in French Guiana, that "abscess on the body colonial," will progressively be abolished. Within a few months, a mixed commission from the Ministries of Colonies and Justice will be sent to Guiana to recommend the details. Until the present Paris scheme matures, no more convicts will be sent out to rot in the tropics...
That is the evil; the cure is simple. Merely reverse the initial advice, "Freshmen, whatever one thing you may do, do a little of everything and nothing in exclusion." This is reasonable advice, for it is true that at no other place except Harvard can the student find so many educational opportunities, academic, physical, and in the realm of human relations. But the pathetic truth is that only as a Freshman can you perocive and try out these opportunities...
...said that we have overproduction when so many Americans are badly fed, badly clothed and badly housed? How can it be said we have overproduction when large groups of our fellow citizens are neglected, underpaid, or unemployed? How dare we talk about overproduction when the evil effects of these conditions run beyond the tragedy of stunted lives and challenge the welfare and the honor of the nation...