Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh of Princeton is taking active means to bring the subject of civil service reform before the students, and thus directly to the attention of the colleges at large...
...Civil Service Reform Club is to be organized at Cornell...
...classes. The college man has a keen and high regard for his honor, and his honor would forbid the breaking of his pledge. Let such an agreement be made for one or two years in almost any college, and the practice of hazing is practically abolished." The only real reform will come, we think, when as at Harvard the students have outgrown the silly practice and come to discountenance it as childish and beneath their dignity...
...question of civil service reform in our national politics is certainly one of the leading topics of the day. At Harvard, as well as at other colleges, there are undoubtedly many whose interest in the subject is sincere and earnest, and who are very willing to aid the cause in any way in their power. At one college, we understand, there is already a civil service reform among the students, and at Princeton the project of forming one is now being agitated. There would seem to be no reason why this movement should not spread throughout all the colleges...
...reason so many should be wholly excluded from the sport. The present system of "scrambling" for courts or of one man reserving for private use the best court to be found, is unjust to the extreme and we hope that another year of dissatisfaction will be more fruitful in reform. Some persons have always insisted upon the inutility of the association except to a select few, and they may now feel reassured in their opinion by the present management of tennis matters...