Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Hart addressed the Massachusetts Reform Club Friday evening on the subject of the application of the Monroe Doctrine to the present Venezuelan boundary dispute...
...Casper Whitney reiterates his charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes...
There are three functions of reform which become a necessity in every state, namely, that of protection of institutions, relief of privation, and the improvement of social conditions. Only organized effort can accomplish these measures and as the government is the only power in the state which can control every individual it is the duty of the government to supervise these matters. Of course the state cannot interpose any opposition to voluntary effort; where people spontaneously undertake to make roads, build schools and found charitable institutions they relieve the government of some of its duties and the government is generally...
Lastly, we come to the regulation and improvement of the social conditions. All reform should be amended only in the statutes after the most careful deliberation and investigation. This canniest be effected by official inquiry, for individual research never would have the same success as an investigation backed by the government...
...feels pardonable pride in the fact that there are three of its graduates on the Venezuelan Commission, recently appointed by President Cleveland. Justice Brewer is also one of Yale's three representatives on the Supreme Court bench. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt will probably speak before the Graduates and Civil Service Reform clubs, sometime during March, on the subject of Civil Service Reform, or some phase of the movement...