Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the subject matter which he is being taught is mainly theoretical, and that little of it is practical. Especially is this idea apt to be held by one entering into the field of government and economics. Old beliefs as to the hesitancy in adopting various institutions of reform in governmental matters of the city, state, and nation are rapidly disappearing. New methods of city government, as taught to students in the University, are now given consideration by those in public authority. In this connection it is interesting to note the recommendations made by Professor W. B. Munro...
Professor Hugo Muensterberg's newest work has just left the German press, being a volume of 767 pages entitled "Grundzuge der Psychotechnik." It covers ground which had not been systematically treated in any language, developing the application of psychology to education, law, commerce, industry, politics, social reform, art, history, natural science, and medicine. Some of these topics are discussed in an elementary form in his less technical books, "Psychotherapy," "On the Witness Stand," "Psychology and the Teacher," "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency," and in a little volume to appear this month, "Psychology and Social Sanity," but while all these books were...
...suffragists, is a grand-daughter of Henry Clay. She was elected to the vice-presidency of the National Suffrage Association quite recently, and soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this office, she was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the compulsory schooling...
Pamphlets on Law Reform...
...learning, here and abroad, are represented on the local advisory board, which is composed of Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The purposes of the institution are: (1) To teach modern medicine and surgery to Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinese Government in inaugurating a greatly needed hygienic reform; (3) to study particularly the diseases of the Orient. In furtherance of the second provision, Dr. Edwards, who has just completed the work for the degree of Doctor of Public Health, will on his return take up the training of health officials...