Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Desmond, who is an author and a journalist is best known for his work in connection with Ireland. As a special correspondent for several London papers, he was the first Englishman to be admitted to the midnight court of the Sinn Fein, and was also received into the Ulster Reform Club, thus gaining an intimate knowledge of both parties. The meeting will be open only to members of the Liberal Club...
Rarely a day passes during one's college career--especially during the later years--without one's hearing a complaint as to the workings of Harvard occasionally accompanied by some suggestion of reform. Some of the more widely recognized grievances are from time to time discussed in these columns; some are hinted at in Lampy's more serious moments; but most of them pass unheeded and are generally forgotten. Viewed in this light, perhaps no part of the questionnaire issued by the 1922 class Committee is more important than question number 27 and the blank pages...
There would seem prima facie to be no good cause for not instituting some reform immediately. The subject has been approached several times before without effect, and on each occasion, no reasons have been given for the failure to respond to a not inconsiderable demand for change. The CRIMSON urges strongly, that the faculty consider before the next term opens the advisability of allowing seniors who will be eligible for a degree if they pass three courses at the end of the next half year, the privilege of taking only that number of courses...
...usual thing tomorrow. Then, perhaps, the question of higher salaries can be discussed--not while the offices are in the hands of incompetent men. With city government in its present deplorable state, it should require only a few strong leaders to start the much-needed movement toward reform. Even Senator Walsh tacitly admits that conditions could be bettered, while at the same time he advises against the one thing that could bring about that betterment. So long as this attitude continues to exist just so long will city politics be the black sleep of the American environmental system...
...were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have rudely interfered with his further steps toward reclamation. Six of his partners in public service, nabbed by the police, have consonant...