Word: reform
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...addition to his duties at TIME, he organized the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools to arouse local interest in school reform. His connection to Harvard was always close and active. He served two terms on the university's board of overseers. In 1965 Harvard honored him by naming a new Graduate School of Education building after him. "Roy Larsen has to be ranked among the greatest friends of American education." the school's dean, Paul Ylvisaker, said last spring...
...legislation asks each department to set up a student-faculty committee to supervise the tutorial program. Ultimately the reform's effectiveness will depend on the committee's ability to pressure its professors...
...Students would seem to be a natural constituency" for the liberal reform slate, council challenger David Sullivan said recently, pointing to the slate's rent-control stand as one issue that might appeal to students...
...94th and 95th Congresses Kennedy unsuccessfully tried to railroad criminal code revisions through the Senate and House. His bill (the off-shoot of S.1) was labeled "reform" and was duly accepted in the Senate by an overwhelmingly majority (72-15) in January...
Gloucester is a good American town, the kind of town that hates anything too far out of its ken. Gloucester glared an American Gothic chagrin at 19th century religious mutants who sought to reform their church under the stern eye of local bigots and skeptics. These sectarians later became known as Unitarian Universalists and Christian Scientists, and the Gloucester people still chuckle at this historic yarn and shake their heads...