Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under a greater handicap than endowed institutions in the present movement toward further restriction of enrolment because of the limitations imposed upon them by their governmental connections. Almost without exception they are required by charter to admit all graduates from accredited high and preparatory schools. They are dependent for reform upon legislative action...
...Washington, Jefferson and Lee will doubtless now begin to see the light. The rebel yell will be given for the prophet of Baltimore, who is so kind as to lead the backward Confederacy out of its heathen darkness. That great soul, however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims for his purifying sword? With nothing left to attack, he would...
...underpayment for learning, the overpayment for size, both of these are so well known that they have become the standard tocsins of educational reform from coast to coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...
...Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however, in an advertisement of clothing made by Hart, Schaffner and Marx, delivers a direct blow to the fair name of Harvard in a criticism which demands immediate and thorough reform...
Moorfield Storey '66 of Boston, and S. de J. Osborne 1G, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, will attack the administration's policy. Mr. Storey has played a very prominent role in the political world. President of the American Bar Association in 1898, he became prominent in the National Civil Service Reform League a few years later. In 1905 he was president of the Anti-Imperialist League. Mr. Storey delivered the God-kin lectures at the University in 1920. He has published a volume treating the question "What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies...