Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impediment in the way of municipal reform: Dr. Parkhurst in New York Evening Post, Sept. 19.- (a) Arouses the lower classes against sound government: Nat. XL, 67.- (b) Throws the vote of the drinking population into the bands of Tammany, Nat. XL, 67.- (c) The law was passed for purposes of blackmail: Roosevelt, in Forum XX, 1.- (d) Destroys public respect...
...underlie the English case law. Of late, in addition, he has devoted himself largely to historical research. It is doubtful if any other contemporary English legal writer is so well known. He was also among the first, and has been one of the most influential, in the effort to reform the system of legal teaching as practiced in the Inns of Court, and has more than once made public acknowledgement of the debt which England owes in this respect to the example of America, and of the Harvard Law School in particular...
Best general references: Popular Scientific Monthly, xxx, 296, 520 (Jan., Feb., 1887); No. Am. Rev., vol. 137, 218 (Sept., 1883); A. D. White in Forum, x, 357 (Nov., 1890); C. W. Eliot in Forum, xii, 153 (Oct., 1891); A. P. Wilder, Municipal Reform...
Yale's third representative was F. E. Richardson, who contested the arguments usually advanced in favor of the six year term. He maintained that a capable man and an incapable man should not have the same length of services and that civil service reform tends to lessen the President's power of putting into office men who will support him for re-election. He showed that the depression in business usually advanced as an argument against frequent elections, was greatly exaggerated and that business is more stable in America during these periods than in England during its elections...
...constitution was formed based upon that of the National Civil Service Reform League. The following officers were elected: President, S. D. Demmon; secretary and treasurer, W. Bump, of the University of Wisconsin. An executive committee was formed of five members, chosen from Harvard, University of Chicago, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins. A general committee was appointed consisting of one delegate from each club in the league. The vice-presidents will be appointed by the president from the faculties of the colleges represented. A banquet was held in the evening...