Word: evils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cowardice and ill-breeding than the habit of leaving the class room as soon as the monitor has taken the attendance. Yet no abuse has been or is more prevalent than this. We take the matter up now, because we believe that the initiative in the reform of an evil for which the students alone are to blame, should be taken by the students...
This is the evil; now what is the remedy? Obvicusly, the instructor may lock the door, or he may have the attendance taken at the end of the hour instead of at the beginning, or he may stop his lecture and ask embarrassing questions. In short, Harvard College may be turned into a reform school for inculcating civility and decency of manner. This, of course, will never be done and if the students persist in this course of dishonor probably the faculty will make no regulation to stop it. Yet what sort of business is this for college...
...stay here without working, but they even encourage a shameful neglect of duty which must bring discredit upon the University. The minute a man wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing, they could not help a poor man to pass an examination. Some of the prices charged suggest a monopoly on knowledge which is ridiculous. The arguments against the system are too many to name...
Admitting the evil, which seems perfectly obvious, how is it to be done away with? We have said that no rule can justly be passed. The remedy cannot be a sudden one, subverting the whole system at one blow. It seems to us that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These...
...Therefore, the character of the party determines the condition of the whole political system. Thus, if the party organization is corrupt, the evil is felt throughout the whole body politic...