Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope to reform the world by education we must be willing to pay for it. It is satisfactory to know that "twenty per cent," is but a beginning here at Harvard. It shows that the Endowment. Fund is not a dead, issue, that professors are going to get something out of it while it is under way. Thus subscriptions to the fund should be stimulated. May this increase lend momentum to the general movement now on foot to enhance the demand for teachers and thus better the quality of the supply...
Lampy totters on the threshold of reform. Would it not be better to revert to the old maxim, "Nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing matters?" and like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, lure with sweet music the rats and the vermin from their haunts, to be drowned in the scum of the Charles...
Political power will never be a public trust until unfaithful trustees are removed, efficient ones rewarded. When the average man turns from running the government himself during spasmodic outbursts of reform, and devotes himself to running the politicians all the time, the Average Citizen will be better satisfied with his government...
...ready to blame inefficiency on the administration, especially the Democratic administration, and to neglect he cumbersome machinery of checks and balances under which they work, and the failure of our civil service to develop experts. The question to be asked when a reform is brought before the people is not "Does it conflict with a tradition?" but rather "Is the tradition applicable to modern methods, and will the proposed reform give us better, more efficient government?" We have allowed vague references to Washington's Farewell Address to be urged as applicable to present international relations, and such absurd arguments have...