Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persuade Charlie that he should marry her at all. The whole performance is a working out of the problem whether this extraordinary young man whose "life is too full to marry" will be convinced of the error of his ways, or whether he will go on trying to reform the world...
...That the schools promptly reform their methods so that the rudimentary studies as well as science be taught only as subordinate to righteousness...
With the question of entrance requirements, scholastic standards, curtailment of athletics, and methods of student government before the University, with agitation in regard to athletics and methods of tests and examinations engaging attention at Princeton, it is at Yale that movements for reform and signs of dissatisfaction with existing conditions has reached their height. During the past few months Yale has seen an amazing amount of agitation, chiefly in regard to waht has been termed "paternalism...
...valor, honor and truthfulness. He contrasts Kingsley's blundering directness in 1845 with Newman's "loss of power to distinguish fact from fiction." The three results of this Anglo-Saxon Protestantism are: a reversion to an earlier Christianity than the Catholic, an inspiration of moral and political reform, and a dependence on the religious witness of the inner man rather than the dogma of the church. Thus Protestantism is less hampered than Catholicism in dealing with advances in philosophy, science or gov- ernment-because individuals can adjust more quickly than institutions, and the Papal syllabus shows no inclination...
...also of the New York State Supreme Court-who presided at the Stillman case and other divorce suits) advocated the abolition of divorce in the United States. "Divorce," said he, "is a cancer in the vitals of American life. . . . From my experience on the bench I know that halfway reforms are ineffective. The only way to cure the evils of divorce is to completely abolish divorce." This he proposes to do eventually by Constitutional amendment, but more immediately by refusing to recognize decrees granted to Americans in foreign countries, and by taking the power to perform the marriage ceremony...