Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced the postponement of much needed political and industrial reform for a period of nearly ten years. With the spread of Bolshevism through Russia and into Germany, with radicalism and anarchism the hidden watchword of imaginary Corresponding Societies of the hour, with the imperative need of industrial reform staring us in the face, one-half of the American people fear...
...likely that the displacement of another leader will do much good. For the nation as for the individual, time-serving is never the best policy; and until the Mexican leaders, army and people have learned to place principle above immediate profit, there can be no permanent reform...
...addition to this governmental reform, Governor Lowden has worked out a great program of internal improvements. These include a state highway system which will provide paved roads through every county in the state and touching every city of 2000 population or more, to be constructed entirely out of the earnings of the automobile license fees and without any expense to the general tax payers. A waterway system giving Chicago an outlet to the Gulf of Mexico has been adopted and the government engineers have approved...
...Chief Reform Prescribed Freshman Exercise...
...most, significant reform in the year has only an indirect bearing on intercollegiate athletics and is a distinct step in "athletics for all." Following a suggestion or request from the Board of Overseers, the Faculty with the support of the Committee voted to prescribe physical exercise for Freshmen. Dr. Roger Irving Lee, Professor of Hygiene, has given his summer to plans for putting the vote of the Faculty into effect this year with the class of 1923. Harvard College with its tradition of personal liberty has been slow in determining on physical prescription but in this matter, as in many...