Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisdom of returning Rhodes scholars is evident in the proposal put forth by the Harvard Student Council to organize the undergraduate body into residential groups analogous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. When Woodlow Wilson undertook a similar reform at Princeton he failed for lack of understanding of the English universities--perhaps also of the American undergraduate. His theory was rigidly "democratic." In each "quad" there were to be so man" rich men, so many poor men; so many "prep-school" men and so many men from public school; so many Northerners, Southerners, Westerners. As if this leveling were...
...taken leadership in the training of law years for able service not alone of private clients, but of the public interest. Of late, however, the school has seen opportunities of usefulness rising before it with freshly forceful insistence, as in the case of the much-needed reform of American administration of criminal justice. In the urgency of such calls, it has found new courage to make open appeal for the funds required to answer them, and we are glad that it has done so. Every dollar of that portion of the five millions of new endowment which...
...Jewish students; he has insisted upon full recognition of industry and ability. In 1922, when this pressure was first severely felt, the Board of Overseers passed a resolution that the traditional Harvard policy of freedom from racial or religious discrimination should be maintained; and, in announcing the present reform, the authorities point out that this policy is to be in no wise impaired...
Second there is Governor Pinchot. He has plenty of money. Last week he announced his candidacy. He is his own backer. He bucks the regular organization. He is dry and has the reform vote. He stands well with the Pennsylvania miners. He is a Progressive, and the Administration does not want...
...Benito exulted: "This is the most courageous, most audacious, most radical and most revolutionary reform yet formulated by the Fascist Government in its 40 months of office...