Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously and harmfully affect the basic educational purposes of the colleges," it puts forward four sound suggestions for football reform to be discussed at a conference of college faculties, athletic councils, and undergraduates. Of these four suggestions one is contained in the proposal of President Hopkins, that two teams of equal strength be developed to play games away and at home simultaneously...
...present reviewer yields to no man in his satisfaction in this reform. It is good journalism and good business, and will do more to lift the mortgage from the old home than any amount of "special number", fake CRIMSONS, and the like. All that remains is to make the paper a little bit funnier, without, of course, admitting to its columns anything that would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty. For instance, Jones contributes to the May 4 issue a first rate professional cover; the kind of work that outside magazines are glad...
...which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval in theory and of indifferent tolerance in practice...
...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...
...notes are in the form of memoranda jotted down during the course of the debate, Borah, in his verbal clash with Butler, convinced his audience that Prohibition was a sound reform in its present form...