Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passage of the Bland-Allison bill, in the early part of 1878, that public attention was forcibly called to the matter. Since then the importance of the question has slowly grown, until now the people are paying as much heed to it as to the tariff and civil service reform...
...nearly a year since compulsory attendance at Sunday service was abolished. After the board of overseers had wrought this much needed reform, it voted to recommend the reestablishment of Sunday morning services in Appleton Chapel. The faculty took no heed of this suggestion; moreover, in a few weeks they discontinued the evening services, which were very largely attended by the students. This year the same thing is being done. No longer do we have the privilege of listening to able preachers, whose words have done so much to inspire the men who hear them. We have heard words of regret...
...advanced and progressive? Increase in the number of students, increase in the interest manifested by the students, elevation in the character of the scholarship evolved, an enlarged scope of intelligent work, do not these prove the strength of the new movement and its value as an element in the reform of study? Would we be wise to look wistfully back upon the happy days of delusion if we can prove that it was delusion which possessed us. The work of Harvard has distinctly marked a great era of reform, and as such should be forwarded, despite the animadversions of those...
...very sensible announcement, surely, in view of the widespread interest which has of late been aroused upon this subject. If any student seeks a flaming sword to hold him in the path of right, here it is, two-edged at that. While some disciples (or leaders?) of reform are for abolishing that servile committee of surveillance, the proctors, and while, moreover, this reform has already been tried with success in some of the higher courses, perhaps a too hasty change would be inadvisable. And yet each student ought to remember that in cheating he not only places at stake...
...Prayer Petition is sent out to-day. The committee beg that all the postals may be returned whether signed or not, so that the exact proportion of men who desire the reform may be ascertained...