Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keynes, world famed economist who recently espoused the equally famed Russian dancer, Mile. Lydia Lopokova (TIME, Aug. 17, MILESTONES), came forward with a plan to resuscitate the Liberal Party. He suggested that it mix politics with sex questions ; more specifically, to include birth control, economic freedom of women and reform of the marriage laws in its party program. Said he in part: The questions which I group together as sex questions have not been party questions in the past. . . . There now are no subjects in which the big general public is more interested. Birth control, marriage laws, the economic position...
...deceive himself that the change of opinion on these matters is one which affects only a small educated class. Let no one suppose that it is the working class which is going to be shocked with the idea of birth control or marriage reform. For them, these suggest new liberty and emancipation from the most intolerable of tyrannies...
Prof. White calls the translation "Dartmouth's Reform in College Education ... the most fundamental changes in American academic policy since Dr. Eliot's introduction of the elective system at Harvard." Fundamental changes they are indeed, though not new departures, since they embody ideas already mustered into the policies of some other U. S. colleges, notably Princeton. But they are changes of great interest to educators, especially in their collective appearance at a single college...
...Tariff reform and tax reform went hand in hand. Said Chancellor Luther...
...Dave" gave up. His attempts to reform the restaurants were no more popular with his own party than they were with others. He felt obliged to admit that after all the restaurant was perhaps cheap and excellent, even if it did not supply eggs and bacon for breakfast...