Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the fact that the pledge system of improving morals has hardly proved an enduring method of reform in college or community, there is one obvious criticism of Yale's latest action. It is characteristic of the policy of mass punishment for the sake of example rather than individual punishment according to the gravity of the case. And it is this policy, followed consistently since the beginning, which has provoked the telling accusation of boarding school methods...
...that the Lampoon is about to reform is not quite the story, for I think that the Lampoon has always been the cleanest of college comics; there have been however, occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical departures," said Nichols. He explained further that this is not being done with any idea of reform or with the thought that the Lampoon's mission is to take the lead in abolishing "smut" in college comics, but perhaps more in an attempt to be original...
...weightiest considerations" explained Nichols. "These men seemed satisfied that the Lampoon had maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations. They felt that the only way was to be thoroughly consistant in the policy and not to permit a half-way reform. Yet it is not so much a question of reform as one of raising the standard and presenting something...
...President of the United States--they will lose whatever sympathy they have in the rest of the country. Their former acts in Oklahoma, which have largely brought about the present situation, have been of a nature to alienate public sentiment. But in other cases, such as in their reform measures in Portland City, they have accomplished much good...
...movement can bring about a method of developing the child according to his possibilities rather than to a pattern set by some social class", of giving him truths rather than myths, much may be achieved. Certainly this makes for individuality more than any possible outside reforms could do. If other motives are ever to replace the personal gain motive, education of this nature is the means. And if class and race strife is ever to give place to peaceful endeavor, it will come through teaching the child the truth about himself and others. By bending its efforts to reform from...