Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last thing in the nature of reform is the discussion of the requirements for admission, which is now going on in the meetings of the faculty. That a fight would soon be made by the socalled opponents of Greek has been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number...
...many questions and points involving class standing, scholarships, courses, etc., which would be much better understood and adapted to present needs if a closer intimacy existed between faculty and students. A good example of the propriety of having scholarship represented, is the case of the Princeton ranking system reform, mentioned only a few days ago in these columns, which was accomplished by a happy union of instructors and undergraduates...
...works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation of the society. Such a result as this naturally was properly appreciated by the students, and they have entered so thoroughly into the spirit of the reform that its success is now assured. After seeing what has been accomplished by a society founded in imitation to that at Cambridge, it cannot be other than a disgrace to the students of Harvard if they allow a spirit of easy negligence to cause the downfall of their own institution...
...acknowledged; but that something is needed whereby to grade the classes and sections of classes, some measure or test of knowledge, is as universally agreed upon. Instructors say that they cannot do away with the present system of examinations and marking, until there is found some system, or some reform of the old system, which will be better and more successful and more just. All this is too true; and it is with earnest appeal that the students of to-day look up to their instructors, hoping for some system, less trying and fairer than the present, the benefits...
...weakened by becoming a less adequate expression of the growing people's needs. The two great defects of the American Constitution are the absence of a uniform law of marriage, and the method of electing a president ; but so complicated is the machinery for altering the constitution that a reform in these points is hardly possible...