Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM CLUB.- Any member of the University can join by calling at 27 Stoughton between 2 and 3 o'clock any day this week. Members can obtain shingles at same time and place...
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM CLUB.- Any member of the University can join by calling at 27 Stoughton between 2 and 3 o'clock any day this week. Members can obtain shingles at same time and place...
...time that a precedent be established abolishing printed slates or any other machinery designed to prevent open contests and free choice." Well and good. But what has this last to do with nominating speeches, or is any connection intended? Does "Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected...
...appointed slate makers are often guilty of conduct unbecoming students of Harvard or any honest men. For the past two years, to the writer's personal knowledge, officers have been chosen only nominally by the whole class, actually by a small but well disciplined minority. With a very slight reform not only the marshalships-which as a rule the managers wisely yield to the men who are sure to get them-but all the other offices would be looked upon as rewards to be gained by achievement for Harvard and the class. If everyone of those eighteen honors could...
...aside from the consideration of the gain we might reasonably expect from this reform, Harvard love of truth ought to impel '97 men, as soon as the evil of slate election is brought to their notice, to take prompt action to insure that the honors they are about to bestow be fairly and honestly won. There will be close contests for some places; friends will solicit votes for their favorites; that is inevitable. There should be, however, no more iron-clad pledging of men, in clubs or out, to support a man for a particular office merely because his name...