Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purposes for which the School was established are, in short, as follows: (1) to teach modern medicine and surgery to the Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinest government in hygienic reform; and (3) to study all the diseases peculiar to the Orient, such as bubonic plague, cholera, and leprosy. That the School is accomplishing the first of these aims is certain, for it now has 23 students engaged in active study and a faculty of ten instructors. As to the accomplishment of the last two it is as yet too early to say, except that there...
...Monthly's leading article on "Our Wavering Paternalism" is interesting and provocative. It makes us think, and it moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like...
...insisting on breadth of culture as the best basis for concentration. But if Mr. Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem of American higher education will best be solved by the frank adoption of the Montessori System...
...Thomas Mott Osborne '84, present warden of Sing Sing state prison, Assining, N. Y., will address the Speakers' Club this evening at 6.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Prison Reform." This is the second time Mr. Osborne has addressed a University audience this year. Since his recent appointment as warden of the country's largest penal institution Mr. Osborne has introduced some very important and significant reforms in the management of criminals...
...Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three years, became Seniors, the orals had grown so odious and unfair that the recent movement to reform them was unusually aggresive...