Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been in the foremost rank of reform, and on this account also we are glad of her re entry...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, makes a suggestion in its last number which is timely and worthy of consideration. Civil service reform is attracting much attention in political life at present, and with justice. It is the important question of the day. College men, and we refer particularly to Harvard undergraduates, have little or no real knowledge of the right and wrong of the matter, and the Advocate's suggestion of a course of lectures on the subject by prominent civil service reformers, is very pertinent. Cannot the authorities of the college, or some one of our energetic societies, take...
...within a very few years. Growth of moral sentiment in this direction has been rapid. Will not some of those same students who smiled at Prof. Lowell's remarks a few weeks ago be the very ones who in a few years will be foremost in upholding the new reform? We think so. We believe that moral sentiment at Harvard has grown rapidly of late in many, and in right, directions. It is growing still, faster perhaps than may seem possible even to our best friends...
...following is copied from a student's notes of one of Prof. Norton's recent lectures, - "Moral sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service...
...present year seems to be one of reform. Revisions of the regulations and warnings are now supplemented by a revision of the term bills. If we sought to characterize the new form of the term-bills by two words, we would say it is in the first place simple, and in the second place economical. While the old term-bill had to be turned about at two or three different angles before the happy recipient could satisfy his thrilling interest in its contents, the new bill may be read, like any other bill, with less trouble and in less time...