Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although complaints have been frequent, no one has heretofore proposed any practicable plan to reform the present state of affairs at Memorial. Recently a gentlemen, unconnected with the college, made a thorough examination of the subject, and presents a number of excellent suggestions. The principal fault to be found with Memorial fare is the poor cooking of the food, due to the insufficient number of cooks, the overtaxing of their patience by the order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from...
Extravagance there is and extravagance there has been for many years, and it is high time that a radical reform be introduced...
Notice is called in another column to the fact that the time during which the telegraph office in Lyceum Building is open, will be lengthened, and that the office will also be open on Sunday for a short time. We are very glad to see this step toward reform in the management of the telegraph in Cambridge. The change will be of great advantage to the public and especially to men of the college who are so often obliged to use this means of communication...
While this innovation is taking place it may not be out of the way for us to suggest that a radical reform should take place in the matter of delivering messages. This department should be attended to as carefully as that of transmission. A case has come to our notice, in which a student dangerously ill received a message from his family, which was not delivered until six hours after it had reached Cambridge...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...