Word: reform
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...guests, members of the Memorial Society, veterans, and sons of veterans of the Charles Beck Post formed in a procession and marched to Sanders Theatre. President Lowell presided, and after the singing of "America," introduced Mr. J. F. Moors '83, who delivered the Memorial address. He spoke of civic reform, especially in Boston, and of the growing sentiment of the people in favor of the merit system instead of the spoils system. After the speech, "Fair Harvard" was sung in closing...
...their best have an immense educational power in every part of education that is not dependent on books or on works of art; but we persistently throw away much of what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher...
...proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed...
...held the position of lecturer in philosophy in Professor Royce's Seminary course in logic. From 1895 to 1898 he was the visiting physician to Channing House and since that time has become consulting physician to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the New England Hospital, and the Lancaster Reform School. Besides being at present a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and counsellor of the Harvard Medical Alumni, Dr. Cabot has done much speaking and campaign work in connection with the public schools of Boston...
...Frank G. Thomson '97 for additional instruction in Municipal Government two half-courses will be given by Dr. Eliott H. Goodwin '95. One of these, Government 17b, will be devoted to The Government of American Cities, and the other, Government 24, will deal with the subject of Municipal Reform, Dr. Goodwin has been for ten years or more the chief executive officer of the National Civil Service Reform League. Attention may also be called to a new half-course, Economics 24, on Municipal Ownership and Control to be given by Dr. A. N. Holcombe...