Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason is this: The annual Freshman "Ed." Must be written. If editors were to have their own way, then would abolish Freshmen altogether and then no longer would the ghastly spectre of the Freshman "Ed." Stare them in the face. But the editors are unable to effect this sweeing reform, every year the powers that be inflict a few hundrel strange new beings upon us. These add people call themselves freshmen the Freshman class. Some day they have hopes of being a part of the college and of catching the college spirit...
...book is a parable intended to inculcate a moral, we can well inquire what lesson it is designed to teach, for the moral may be no less important today than in the remote period when the book was written. Jonah was a reformer who felt that he had a mission to rebuke the immorality, the material motives, the levity, and the lack of serious thought in the great city of his time. But he sought to occupy himself with other things, or, as the writer describes it, he tried to flee from the presence of God. But in vain, Even...
...relationship in industry, in families, in disease, in misfortune, eac., and of types and varieties of personalities, with special interest in the question "Why do they get on well or ill with their fellows?" The more advanced course, a course in social diagnosis, will study the evils which all reform, personal or social, seeks to remove, including disease, ignorance, character defects and economic and other forms of resourcelessness...
...weakest features of our government--extravagance. The majority of thinking Americans would agree with him in favoring this budget. But we have become so hardened to the accusation of extravagance, and the idea of thrift seems to have gone so thoroughly out of fashion, that all reform which aims to curb unproductive expenditure is regarded in much the same light as an umbrella on a clear...
...fair representation in all disputes. Another member immediately arose, pointed to the portrait of Washington, pointed to the American flag, and then turning to the speaker, said: "Now look at the gentleman from Alabama!" By exalting the scions of Patriotism, he was accusing one who had suggested constructive reform measures, slightly radical though they may have been, of non-Americanism. And the House applauded...