Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Youth Movement," continued Dr. Kellarmann, "is not merely a new club, nor is it a school revolution, but it is a reaction against those whose bywords are 'serenity, prosperity, and propriety'. It is not a simple reform of life that is sought, but an intuitive mystical vision, a more humane feeling, accompanied by greater enthusiasm, ideals, and a richer and more beautiful life...
...outstanding athlete and corresponding less on the principles of athletics for all and for the sake of the sport which are essential positive elements in any reconstruction program. The other points are by no means novel but on the whole they represent the sanest portion of the reform opinion...
...merit basis. Politicians laughed heartily, wondered who this young Zealot Carr was. Senators Morgan of Alabama and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts introduced the bill regularly from 1895 to 1905, and saw it tossed aside equally regularly. In 1905 Elihu Root became Secretary of State with a desire to reform the consular service. He discovered that Mr. Carr, then at the head of the Consular bureau, had "a mind stuffed full of ten years' accumulation of calm, well-balanced, orderly ideas for improvement." So Secretary Root and Senator Lodge redrafted the schemes of Mr. Carr and Mr. Jones into...
...minds of the country are bound up in the business of the nation, with the consequent wisdom and efficiency in its conduct. These executives are constantly striving to improve the economic welfare of the land, and so there is little need for agitation among the working classes themselves for reform or betterment of general conditions. All this is handled by the business brains of the country that are always active for greater improvement and efficiency...
...least, nothing could be further from the truth. Humanization and very definite suggestions for its introduction were the two things which I specifically stressed. "My article was, in its small way, simply and solely a plea for just such an academic Renaissance. Because Liberty omitted all my suggestions for reform, the whole character and tone of my article was distorted. Originally, it was not a condemnation of all college teachers who have labored and gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, but an attack on the existing standards which I believed, and still believe, to be detrimental to the best...