Word: evils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Absence of uniformity is the worst evil: Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIII. 224. - (a) It increases the number of divorces: Lalor, III. 808; Pamphlet by S. W. Dike. - (b) It weakens the respect for law in general: Forum, II. 430. - (c) It gives rise to endless confusion: Century, I. 419; Convers, 220-230; Princeton Review, IX. 9 -92. - (1) As to status of the parties in other states. - (2) As to property-rights. - (3) As to legitimacy of children. (d) A uniform remedy should be applied to a uniform evil: Forum...
...training of the team, although as we all know the squads have been working faithfully since the Christmas vacation. The almost unparalleled success which Harvard has met with in track athletics during the last fourteen or fifteen years has a tendency to inspire over confidence, a misfortune the evil consequences of which we may some day bitterly realize. Just why we have had so much success, is perfectly plain. In the first place there is Mr. Lathrop who has for years been adding to his knowledge and skill in training and is thus by constant accumulation of experience better fitted...
...there grounds for saying that the general fall in prices is an evil...
...life here is a succession of visitations, some good, some evil; and it is for us to turn them all to good, to see our time and take advantage of it. The object of all teaching is to make people do this, but it is a hard lesson to learn. Our visitations often take the form of trials. The Paritans, in the midst of the hardships which everywhere attended them, yet seized the opportunity which they saw had come, and success rewarded them. How different was the outcome of the efforts of those who persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because...
...Thursday night of last week they suspended the member of the association who kept his hat on for the purpose of creating a disturbance. Whatever the directors may do they cannot stop the hissing and stamping when a man keeps his hat on, and unless the members correct the evil of their own accord there is no remedy except the closing of the gallery to visitors. This action will certainly be taken unless disturbances in the future are stopped...