Word: malum
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...life. To ease conversation, one Latin scholar has compiled a list of Harvard-related terms translated into Latin. Quadlings can tell Virgil they live in the Tetragonum and freshmen can tell Augustus that they dwell in Area Harvardiana. Last week, participants also discussed dentistry. “O medicum malum!” was Siena T. Koncsol’s ’08 response when Anna K. Swenson ’08 complained about a bad visit to the dentist. That, she explained, means “Oh, bad doctor.” O for real? We thought...
...Malum!' dixit Pu. 'Nemo prorsus adest...
Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do' ... A psychoneurosis, on the contrary, is a certain malum poenae - an 'evil men suffer' or 'undergo' . . . Confession presupposes the power to sin and to turn from sin and seek forgiveness ; analysis usually presupposes necessity and impotence...
...justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties of apples that grow upon the same tree by reason of the grafting of law gives us home that we shall again come into that confidence which is essential to happiness. He said: "I am not without confidence "that...