Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first essential for successful competition is a sound body, and the great danger that threatens it is the abundance of vicious temptation to which men of Harvard, as of every other college, are exposed. It is the most serious danger in that it may defeat the whole object of life; through it comes the only absolute ruin that can come to educated men. Work is the great safe-guard against evil thoughts and evil passions, and occupation in hard work, hard play, or the moderate enjoyment of all innocent pleasures is the best way of crowding out vice...
...days of class rushes, cane fights and similar barbarisms are gone by for Harvard undergraduates, for which profound thanks are due. What little excuse there remained for the rush has been absolutely done away with in recent years by the presence of persistent and vicious outsiders who monopolized a large share of the proceedings. For those men in 1912 who have not yet become acquainted with our ways of conducting affairs, and for certain restless elements in the Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College...
...extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...
...undergraduate's interests here at Harvard may be classed under three heads,--athletic, social,--both harmless and vicious,--and academic. The Faculty, realizing that, in the race to win the interest of the average undergraduate, it is far behind the promoters of athletic and social enterprises, proposes to exclude, in a measure, the other competitors. Before it does so it would be well for it to examine the workings of all the departments to see if the utmost possible is done to attract the interest of undergraduates. We wonder if the average instructor is as heartily interested in the welfare...
...inadequate punishment of offenses. The men who play the game are between nineteen and twenty-five years of age and their ethical ideas are not firmly developed. So strong are the temptations and so inadequate the punishments that brutal instincts are aroused in a man not morally vicious. Is not this effect positively detrimental? Then opponents may play unfairly and a player feels in duty bound to retaliate. The results of this tendency are manifest on every side. Do not think that we are attacking the characters of college football players, for they are often victims of a vicious system...