Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell Era publishes a lengthy extract on athletics from President Eliot's report, terming it a "commendable reform." "On the basis of President Eliot's plans," it says, "great good may result to a large number who at present take no interest in healthful exercise...
...present year is one of experiment in the matter of college athletics. First, our own faculty came out with its plan of reform and was partially followed by a number of other colleges. And now Amherst brings forward another plan-that of entire prohibition from inter-collegiate sports, which may be called either bolder or more timid than our own, according to the way in which one chooses to look at it. The plan adopted is more in accordance with the traditions of Amherst than it would be of any of the larger colleges, and we feel positive that...
Students at Harvard printed a circular purporting to be issued by a "Society for the Reform of the Social Habits of Foreigners," and aimed especially at the consumption of Limberger cheese and sour-kraut. The circular fell into the hands of European journalists and was gravely and severely commented on by them. - [Harper's Weekly...
...term, President McCosh, of Princeton College, took occasion to deliver a long harangue against athletic sports as at present practiced in colleges. The good doctor asserted that an undue amount of attention was paid to athletic sports as compared with the proper studies of the course, and that a reform in this particular was earnestly to be desired. He, therefore, urgently requested that less attention be paid to outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh...
...President has signed the civil service reform bill...