Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violated. Recently certain members of the freshman class at Harvard were so indiscreet as to egg the seniors on to wrath and the rest of the college on to disgust at their mawdlin behavior. Now some members of the Yale freshman crew have committed the venial but vicious sin of cheating at examinations. So two colleges include certain individuals whom a Yale graduate of fame and fortune could call "These sad young...
...mathematical side of music, than it is to instill in them a love of the best music. Another great evil to which our attempts at standardization of education has led is that we feel that "to ascend Parnassus one must first tunnel under its base. No more vicious educational fallacy than this was ever uttered": Dr. Davison continues, "the way to right is never through wrong." The way to teach the value of good music is not to teach bad music first. In the teaching of literature today, we do not start the pupil on something he understands, such...
...pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...
...which it is not in sympathy; where a single race, the Jews, has attained a degree of political control making possible a practically complete domination of the press, so that the situation cannot even be publicly exposed; where labor shares in this exploitation of the masses through the most vicious kind of class legislation; and where personal liberty is as dead as Julius Caesar...
Still, stupid people turn to quacks, hearken to vicious promises, such as appear in the current issue of dolichocephalic Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture. Thus he shrieks in headlines...