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Word: reformer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN: - A convention of representatives of American colleges and universities will be held in the Marquette Club rooms in Chicago, May 3, for the purpose of organizing a National League of College Civil Service Reform Clubs. While it would be too much to say that our Harvard organization has given rise to this project, it may be said to have largely contributed to it. At that convention our University should be represented, and President Eliot, Professor Dunbar, Professor Norton and others are heartily in favor of sending a delegate from the University as well as one from the Harvard Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/4/1895 | See Source »

...stirring talk on Civil Service Reform may be expected. The relation of wageearners to this reform will be particularly discussed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospect Union Addresses. | 4/3/1895 | See Source »

...Corporation and Overseers are not in this position. To appeal to them may be of some use. Why should not the appeal be made? Evidence could be given of the sincerity among football men in their plans for reform; and it could be shown that it will be bad for the University either to abolish the game altogether, or to stop it one year and then let it go on. There would be a great loss to the athletic interests which even the Faculty ought to recognize. The opinion is general, and probably not unfounded, that many members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/2/1895 | See Source »

...HUTTON and E. P. WILLIAMS.Best general references: New Englander, XLIII, 193-212 (March 1884); Forum IV, 1-13 (Sept. 1887); Nineteenth Century XXV, 781-785 (June 1889); Catherine E. Beecher, Woman's Suffrage and Woman's Profession; Francis Parkman, Woman's Suffrage; Horace Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, The Reform Against Nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English VI. | 4/1/1895 | See Source »

...Faculty may be, no one will question that they spring from a sincere devotion to the welfare of the University. It is, however our belief, as it has been, that the action of the Faculty is mistaken and ill-timed, and that with the present widespread disposition to reform intercollegiate. football, the game could actually be brought back to its proper standing as a gentlemanly sport. As long as there was any chance that the Faculty would allow the attempt to be made, we urged its desirability, as did many of the Faculty themselves. But the decisive action which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1895 | See Source »

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