Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official action had to be taken against soldiering on the part of the 1,778 counters and officials whose salaries, ranging from $10 to $30 a day, finally ran the cost of the count to a staggering $850,000. And although P. R. was adopted last year as a reform measure to enfranchise minorities and protect them against Tammany domination, it had not only disfranchised that 16% of the voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats, snowed under by 450,000 votes for Fusionist Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the mayoralty race, a majority...
Left peacefully slumbering in another committee is the Ramspeck bill, a valuable and constructive reform. Its proposals are diametrically opposed to those of the McKellar bill. Whereas the latter would place the appointment of fourteen thousand higher-class postmasters permanently under Senate control, the latter would take such appointments entirely out of the Senate's hands. Although providing no magic formula through which efficient government service can be realized, it is infinitely preferable to the perpetuation of a system which has undermined government administration for over three quarters of a century...
...different verdict is rendered. The most notorious of Jacksonian institutions must be destroyed. However great the senatorial inertia, however difficult the abandonment of old practices, however pleasant the rewarding of loyal friends with the juicy plums of public office, the day of judgement is at hand. Civil service reform has been postponed long enough; the time for action has arrived...
...which does not look right to me, and certainly reflects very little credit on Harvard. In fact, I think there would be much justification in accusing Harvard of poor sportsmanship, for which the athletic authorities are solely responsible, but I think the student body ought to agitate for a reform in this policy of taking on a "soft touch" on the Saturday prior to the Yale game, while Yale is playing a hard game with Princeton. Yours very truly, W. M. Holden, Harvard...
There is only one way of getting this registration business done quickly and painlessly. The first step in the reform is to give the axe to the December study cards, which have to be largely rewritten after the student tries his courses in February. The undergraduates should be given, as they are, two weeks to sample their courses, and the last three days of this time should be set aside for one and final registration. On these days should come a public proclamation of the times and places for seeing the faculty. Only some clear-cut plan like this will...