Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Active in Civil Service Reform...
...Harvard in 1866 he was for a while private secretary to Charles Sumner. He has served several terms as Overseer of the University. During his long and honorable career he has been identified with a variety of public movements, having been active in such organizations as the Civil Service Reform League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
Well do we remember the commotion aroused in the University, less than a year ago, by the birth of a new literary light with a gospel of reform to unfold. Parodies of red, gray, and yellow joined the white-covered original in ornamenting the coat pockets of undergraduates for days, and the stands on the Square did a thriving trade...
...causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich in 1903. Yet with all Serbia's troubles, the Jugo-Slav idea blossomed and bore fruit in the minds of the leaders and there was linguistic reform and a literary revival, despite jealousies, religious feelings, the Austrians playing off one against the other...