Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more goals made on either side, and that the game would require more skill. That there would...
...SEVERAL Boston clergymen," says a writer in the Watchman, "have been agitating theatre reform. There seems to be need of it. The lowest play ever put before the American public has been acted in Boston for a week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations...
...system, which will make Harvard a real University. The steps taken towards this system have now proceeded so far, that to go on is an absolute necessity. But in order that there may be no need of taking any steps backward, the Faculty wisely "make haste slowly" in their reform. For this reason we have no fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies...
...rest of the year. Perhaps we can pity Swellington if he is fond of liquor; but we have only contempt for Gosling. If all our popular men would realize as fully as many of them do, the trust which their popularity confers upon them, there would be no college reform which they might not accomplish...
...friends of this new rule watched the result of its application to any other than the highest class. But every Junior who has at heart his own interests, as well as a proper regard for the reputation and prosperity of Harvard, and a desire for her success in the reform methods which she has undertaken to introduce, must have appreciated the responsibility thrown upon his shoulders during this trial-year of a system which relieves him from the slavery and loss of time required by enforced attendance at recitations, and we shall be much surprised if a faithful performance...