Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debate of Premier Benito Mussolini's bill to reform the electoral law* (TIME, Dec. 29) provided abundant scope for the fiery oratory and violent scenes which have made the Italian Chamber of Deputies so justly famed...
Broken Laws. When Mrs. Wallace Reid was prompted by the oily counsels of certain picture promoters to capitalize in the name of reform the death of her famed husband, the public was divided between crass curiosity and amazed disappointment. The curious were in the majority, apparently, since her dope film went the rounds and now has a successor. The present protest is against jazz and the younger generation. It teaches that parents must set a good example to their children. It follows the faithful old anti-jazz formula which has been a cinema staple five long years...
...Reform, if necessary, must come from within. It must come from an awakening of the spirit of Harvard men present and past. To think of making or unmaking ideals of scholarship and service by investigating committees and legal procedure is puerile. And moreover the danger is not what it is pictured to be. The concentrating of vocational preparation for business in a graduate school devoted to that end is a most effective means of relieving the College of the vocational burden it has partly attempted to bear. More than ever before it can become a true center of the teaching...
Easter. The Roman Catholic, Greek, English and .some other churches have joined in the movement to reform the calendar insofar as fixing a specific date for Easter is concerned. (Easter is now fixed in relation to the phases of the moon. This arrangement was made at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D. in order to give persons making Easter pilgrimages a waxing moon on their journey and a waning moon on their trip back home).-M. B. Cotsworth, Director of the International Fixed Calendar League...
...Science, often at war, come together at two points in the anual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, William J. Bryan was accused of being a poor Christian because he is no scientist. The agreement of several churches to join a movement for calendar reform by fixing a uniform date for Easter was announced. (See SCIENCE...