Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening her address, Mrs. Pankhurst briefly outlined the history of the woman suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in England, women learned by experience that although they helped men to win political freedom, they were excluded their proper privileges on account of their sex after that freedom was won. It was this open injustice which led women to take up the fight for their political rights. Hence, at the opening of this century, the first woman's political organization in England was formed to organize the suffrage movement and to take some definite action...
...period of thirty years ending in 1909 was marked by destructive despotism and utter barbarism. A reform party arose, however, and the Sultan was forced to abdicate...
Many remedies have been suggested to meet this coming crisis: parcels post, the insurgent program, government ownership of railroads, and a score of others; but there is a great world test-tube where they have all been tried. In New Zealand every conceivable reform has been given a trial, and with more or less success. The postal service is excellent, telegraph rates are cheap and the company is efficient, there are stringent laws against corporations, there is government ownership of railroads, there is efficient factory inspection; but in spite of all this, poverty, cost of living, slums, corporations, and capital...
...section meeting, which, in the past, has been no exception to the rule that weekly tests are rife with dishonesty, the honor system has eliminated practically every trace of underhanded methods. The opponents of the reform must admit that this is something of a gain. Mechanical, as they say the means are, they cannot deny that the end is reached. Better so-called mechanical methods than the former prevalent cheating...
...case of an unusually versatile athlete who wishes to occupy the interval between football and rowing with competition in wrestling and fencing. In regard to classification it is theoretically and also practically possible for men to make both the baseball and track teams in one season. A simple reform would do away with this unfair situation: a committee, appointed to deal with each case separately, would provide the elasticity necessary for each individual athlete...