Word: indirectness
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...Since this regulation was made by the Corporation and Board of Overseers several days ago, we have received communications and heard some criticism concerning the justice of this move. We print on another page a letter which attempts to show that the Corporation has by this rule made an indirect move against the various political clubs which have been formed to forward the interests of the several candidates for the 1912 federal election. Several days ago we expressed a strong belief in these College political clubs. Therefore, we seize this opportune moment to reconcile the Corporation's unanimous opinion with...
...many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present systems to be an evil because evils have resulted from...
...present system in all the purity of its fundamental principles, and the evils will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive goods, in order to prevent the possibility of indirect evils--in short, the end justifies the means--,whereas the other wishes to uphold positive good and destroy evil by a direct attack at its root, that is, individual abuse of a legitimate right. "Does the house-wife," argues the conservative, "cease to give bread to her children because some...
...change in feeling has come about quite naturally, through the better understanding by the leading merchants and business men of Cambridge of the benefits, direct and indirect, which the city derives from Harvard. On the other hand, President Lowell and the Harvard authorities have been quick to respond to the friendliness of these citizens, who have the best interests of Cambridge at heart, and form and lead civic public opinion...
...Hygiene. Would it not be possible to publish these lectures in book form at the end of the course and to distribute them rather widely? The lectures would thus reach several times as many people as they do, and their practical value to the community as well as their indirect advantage to the Medical School would be manifoldly increased...