Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtained, but its progress is certain to be rendered slow by the present existing laws and by the indirectness of officialdom. In the meantime, the incoming flood of prospective citizens still continues, so that those in charge of the work must shoulder the double burden of campaigning for reform while attending to duties far heavier than normal. Italy's decision to withhold her share of immigrants until matters shall be adjusted is thus extremely helpful in that it comes at so opportune a time...
Effect of Reform Certain...
...Enright has not denied the many charges of incompetence. If there has been favoritism or dishonesty in any form, this ought far more to be in the public mind than the "to be, or not to be" of a crime wave which may serve well as a means to reform, but can never be an end in itself...
...placed. But it is emphasizing bygones that the optimist objects to. He would have the country adopt a hopeful attitude towards the existing evils, a realization that we want past offenders done away with primarily because through that attitude an opportunity will be given for corrupt organizations to reform themselves. After all the past is not of primary interest except as it affects the future. The real importance of investigating the corruption in the Shipping Board is that it will enable us to put our shipping on a firm basis at once, where it can compete with England's, which...
President Eliot will address a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club this evening at 8 o'clock in the Union. The subject of the talk will be: "The Necessity for Reform in National Education and the Deficiency of the Present Situation." This meeting, to which all foreign students are invited, is the second of a series of lectures planned by the Cosmopolitan Club for the current year...