Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of thirty men held on Monday afternoon, the undersigned were chosen a committee to present a plan for organizing a Tariff-Reform Association of Harvard University. They have now decided to place a blue-book at Leavitt's for signatures, containing the following resolutions...
...Republican mass meeting recently held by the students was largely attended and great enthusiasm shown. Four companies were organized and the colors orange and black adopted. A meeting has also been called in favor of tariff reform and Grover Cleveland...
...these college figures there is proof that the lines are drawn differently on partisan and economic issues, and that, as regards the tariff, the leaven of reform is doing good work. Thus, at Columbia, we find fifteen Republicans and fifteen protectionists. That this parity of numbers is merely a coincidence, however, appears from the fact that, although there were only eight Democrats represented in the vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats...
...communication commenting upon the sale of reserved seats at the last Yale game. In view of the many similar complaints which have been made recently, an answer is not only desirable but necessary. We trust that the assertions contained in the communication can be satisfactorily explained, otherwise a radical reform in the present system of selling reserved seats is most advisable...
...Harvard College, although not the first to begin this reform, nor successful in her first attempts to introduce it, has by a series of happy coincidences taken her place at the very head of the column and stands today by universal consent at the head of American institutions, so far as number of different branches taught in its curriculum and the number of courses offered in each branch is concerned...