Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...this campaign the support of practical business men will be lacking. There is a vast difference between the evil done by alcohol and that done by tobacco. Both are bad for anyone if used injudiciously, just as eating, walking, reading, and innumerable other things are bad if done without moderation. Here lies the great difference--alcohol has caused much misery in the world, but this can hardly be said of tobacco. If a man uses tobacco immoderately, he works harm only to himself; this is not, however, sufficient reason for prohibiting...
...panic, with its evil effects even upon healthy institutions, its detriment to local manufactures and trade, and its reflections upon the financial reputation of Massachusetts, will have been worth all the trouble, if out of it can come a realization that sound, progressive banking methods, administered by trained executives, are preferable to high returns and low security...
...improbable there will be an increase of industrial distrubance, Labor, both orgainzed and unorganized, will fight to preserve its new wage scales. It will regard lace of continuity of employment as less of an evil than to work for less per day or hour. Men of business may expect to be harassed by new difficulties...
...preaching was so powerful that to his astonishment the whole people immediately repented in sackcloth and ashes. The object of his mission was accomplished with miraculous speed; the destruction, which was to follow a persistence in sin, was avoided and did not take place; but having fore told evil, he was disappointed that it did not come. He was angry with himself and with God, and retired to brood in solitude over the failure of his prophecy. The moral, then, is that of the man who becomes so intent upon the means of achieving his object that he mistakes...
...perhaps for others, may we not suggest that several lectures be given by a member of the Faculty familiar with the situation, and by some prominent Japanese? In any case, something of the sort ought to be done at Harvard to clear up a situation whose very laziness forbodes evil. A. E. MIRSKY '22, M. L. ANSON '22, F. OTTO KOENIG...