Word: reform
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides for the actions of those to whom we must entrust the agitation of this reform after our own college lives have ended...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It is at Bloomington, Indiana, not Illinois, that the Civil Service Reform League, composed mostly of professors and students of Indiana University, has offered prizes for essays on the Civil Service, as stated in the CRIMSON of March 6. I ask you to make the correction since the two Bloomingtons are so often confounded, and the Hoosiers desire "honor to whom honor...
...text be true that a man can do better work in pleasant surroundings, then it is the bounden duty of every one of us to see that his rooms shall be free from any criticism, such as the foregoing. "Reform" is the cry of the hour. Let there be a reform in the question of aesthetics as also in that of clenly neatness. Let this reform be carried out by all, including the janitors, and the ever present "goodies...
...Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully...
...while in company with our correspondent of this morning we continue the war against Sever 11, we must also advocate another reform of quite as much importance. This, too, relates to the conduct of lecture courses. The freedom with which the Cambridge populace crowd to lectures in Sever, testifies strongly to man's inherent desire to go to "free shows." The more we see of this intrusion, the more we think that some stringent measures should be taken to prevent it. If the lectures were intended alike for Cambridge people and for Harvard students, we would have nothing further...