Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library petition has been granted. The petition was signed by the majority of the students, and the fact that the faculty have seen fit to grant it proves conclusively that any reform of not too vital a nature can be accomplished by the united interest of the students. Reserved books can now be taken from the library between four in the afternoon and sunset. By this change the average gain in time by the students is nearly three-quarters of an hour each day. We sincerely trust that this privilege will not be abused, and that it will accomplish...
...theory of education, and the unjust character of their actual operation is so well known, that I will not stop here to prove the inadequacy of our present system of marking and ranking. But the very absurdity of the system will serve to point out the way to reform...
This system will be deemed almost revolutionary by many, but it has already been adopted by other colleges, and with success, Modern Harvard is devoted to reform. Let her spirit be shown in this one department that still flavors of antiquity...
...foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training to enter politics for honorable service is one of the hopeful signs of the times. Age may be needed to give experience and caution, but young men furnish an enthusiasm and faith in reform which most of their elders fail to possess...
...undue prominence and misrepresentation which these headings convey. This trick of newspapers is growing with certain Boston dailies. In fact this method of appealing to the lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that can distinguish between journalism and newspaperism, and that a financial existence does not necessarily depend on loud type and high sounding distorting headings. The public press should...