Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like President Meiklejohn of Amherst, who have long advocated similar changes as elements in a necessary reform will welcome this a precursor of still better things. The tremendous budget and still vaster income of the modern college athletic association is so vast as the be at once a great danger and potentially great blessing. Any course which unites more closely the academic and athletic interests of such a community is decidedly for the good, and strictly in accordance with the cleaning up policy generally in vogue at present. Yale News
Seniors, for all their epithet of "Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best...
...that the play seemed a different play. At the Saturday afternoon performance Mihail Tarkhanoff played Luka. It would be difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen...
...impose a tax of one-half of one per cent on the gross receipts of over $500 of all manufacturers, merchants, retailers, professional men and workers, sales of farm products by the producer alone exempted. The money so raised was to have been spent on colleges, the penitentiary, reform schools and other public institutions...
...conference will start at luncheon tomorrow noon when President Meiklejohn will discuss "The Role of the College Student in Administrative and Curricular Reform". At dinner the same day Professor Robinson will talk upon "Of What Importance that the Student have a Social and Political Mission?" A breakfast discussion on Sunday morning will be devoted to problems of defining, formulating, and especially executing liberal policies in the field of student activities. The delegates will give brief descriptive and expositional reports on college forums, curricular, liberal journals, and constructive aspects of student government. The situations abroad will be discussed...