Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debar all, including the extremely few who have changed for educational purposes, than to have the present system continue, especially as it is becoming commoner every year. It is very certain that if a check is not put on it in the near future, it will be a worse evil than semi-professionalism and will eventually ruin intercollegiate sports. GEORGE M. R. HOLMES '98. March...
Boswell was of the opinion that bad weather had an evil effect on the body; an opinion which called forth from Dr. Johnson the remark that "this is all imagination which physicians encourage." Were these gentlemen with us today, they might add to their conversation, the Doctor pointing out triumphantly how little the Twentieth Century worries over the weather, either in its work or play;--at least this can be said of college undergraduates...
...after year Harvard loses decisive points in athletic contests because--for academic reasons--she is not fully represented in the field. Coaching, training-tables, intensive practice, often prove futile because her best material is "on pro." No sport this winter,--from swimming to track, has been free from this evil...
...anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions in Japan report the same situation there. Propaganda in one form or another is an incalculably powerful weapon; and when it fosters misunderstanding of the character, the aims, or the common sympathies of two distinct races, it is a highly insidious evil...
...play is full of contrasts and tragic ironies that grow with reflection. The struggles of Raimunda to protect her daughter and the honor of her family; the useless resistance of Esteban to the "envious, evil mind" that is controlling his life; the guilty love of Acacia for her stepfather, concealed until the last moment under a mask of hate; and the remorseless jealously of the dead, that finally confounds sweet-heart and enemy in one final ruin-these are the elements that, under Benavente's touch, take life and from upon the stage. The slow movement of the tragedy affords...