Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe that the experiment, lately inaugurated by the college, of granting liberty to seniors "of regulating their own conduct as regards attendance at church," has resulted satisfactorily; we see no reason to doubt its success. It has certainly been a popular reform in the regulations. Therefore we see no reasons why a like liberty should not be extended to juniors. All the arguments that apply in favor of granting it to seniors must apply equally well in favor of extending it to juniors. Statistics show that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average...
...liable. It is becoming altogether too common a practice to be longer countenanced by college men for careless brutality, and the infliction of personal indignities, to be resorted to by unruly students with perfect freedom from impunity under the specious pretext of "hazing." This condition of affairs must be reformed by some means or other. If college students themselves do not see and appreciate this fact, and if there is no other way to convince them of it, measures as stern and decisive as the summary arrest and punishment of all offenders would seem to be justified...
Several boys escaped from the New Hampshire Reform School yesterday. Two have been captured and the rest are still at large...
...this new civilization a stranger is surprised to find so many women given up to dress-reform and pre-Raphaelite poetry; it is generally supposed that in America there is so much to be done, so much boiling and bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed...
...tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public sentiment needs to be reinforced and strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand and active measures be taken to work a reform. That such a plan as that proposed by the Harvard Total Abstinence League is altogether the best, we are not yet convinced It is a very difficult matter for one to make up one's mind to a decisive stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total...