Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guatemala's Congress this week passed one of the most sweeping land-reform bills ever enacted in the Western Hemisphere, and sent it to President Jacobo Arbenz. As the measure's prime sponsor, he was expected to sign it promptly into...
Speaking before 199 seniors and 70 graduate students at Radcliffe Commencement exercise yesterday morning, Vera Michels Dean, editor of the Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Association, urged women to take an active part in politics and social reform and said not to be "afraid to have convictions of your...
...scandals, commercialized football and athletic subsidization have ruined amateur athletics in the U.S.? No, not quite: "A lot of our amateur spirit is gone, yet I don't think it is irretrievably gone. But if the college presidents and faculties don't go through with plans to reform college football and athletics in general, they will be destroying something that is marvelous in our life." Football's elder statesman likes to remember the old days at Chicago when "the only reward the boys got was a sweater or a letter...
...help the freshmen on the clean and narrow track, Lampy inaugurated a new 'clean humor policy' with its freshman issue. "To say that the Lampoon is about to reform is not quite the story," President F. H. Nichols '24 said, "for I think that the Lampoon has always been the cleanest of college comics. There have been. however, occasional lapses...
...members of the class of 1952 believe that beyond mundane effort lies a nebulous ideal. To those who "would win more victories for humanity," President Conant reminded that the conviction of Alger Hiss and the confession of Klaus Fuchs have been heavy blows against the tradition of progress through reform and that now "a dark blanket of public suspicion woven by the same type of persons who have always fought the reformer but now aided by the revelations of the traitorous actions of a few fanatics...