Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College Chronicle has for a motto the sentiment esto cere perennius, which, for the sake of posterity, we trust relates to the institution of which it is the organ and not to the publication itself, unless the latter undergoes a speedy and thorough reform. Its tone is puerile and weak throughout, and is rendered doubly so by the enormous society-titles of "Cliosophic" and "Philorhetorian," to which it gives prominent positions in its columns...
...learn that it is conducted by the literary societies of the University. The articles are all well written, interesting, deep, and spirited. Though we shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that success, as the Review claims, "will have accomplished a reform which is needed at other institutions of learning as well as our own." Experience has shown that long articles, however well written, are seldom read by the majority of students, and a college paper, to live, must be supported by every undergraduate. This fact, and the character of other college...
...second number - entirely devoted to a bitter condemnation of the "Skull and Bones" society. That Yale has been crippled in more than one way by the evils of her society system is acknowledged by many of her own students, but we doubt if the Iconoclast will work a reform. The only really important charge it brings against the society is, that it prefers its own interests to those of the college, and this it does not prove in a satisfactory manner. That it is sensible of the weakness of its own position seems to be shown by the irrelevant nature...
...life, perhaps, which is most interesting, for we have here presented to us a character supposed to be almost extinct, - the country gentleman. Mr. Hughes may stand as a representative of the most thoroughly developed Englishman; manly to the last degree, taking a vigorous interest in every reform, bringing up his children with reverence for Church and State, and for their own minds and bodies, and preserving among the poorer inhabitants of his vicinity that almost unattainable mean between too great and too little familiarity...
...meeting in Boston of the Social Science Association, last Wednesday, there was an exciting discussion concerning the Higher Education of Women, in which President Eliot was severely attacked for not opening Harvard College to women. The advocates of reform rely chiefly on theoretical and abstract reasons. They say that the College is endowed by the State, that women pay taxes, and that therefore it is legally wrong to refuse them the advantages of education that have been procured by their money; that girls in the public and private schools often display a great capacity for study, and often lead...