Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prizes amounting to $100 are offered for an essay on the subject "Prisons and Prison Reform," open to all students in colleges or universities in the United States. The prizes are given by Adolph Lewison, President of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor...
...School Society will hold the first meeting of the year in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock. Dean Scott, of the Law School will be the guest of the society and will speak on the subject of "Legal Reform." Any member of the University who is interested is cordially invited to attend...
...fellow-students of a rival college and their regret that such a player as LeGore, admired for his skill and respected for his personal qualities, should no longer match himself against Harvard men. With warm admiration for the Yale authorities in athletics, some of us yet believe that the reform of an evil, provided the evil is not a crime, begins best after clear warning, and that the penalty is wisely applied first to those whose transgression is as conscious as it is unmistakable. Yale has shown that she will risk severity toward herself rather than unfairness toward a rival...
...scattered grumblers; indeed, anyone who has watched carefully the practical working out of the elective system must have been similarly impressed, and here in our own university such prominent thinkers on educational topics as Dean Briggs (in his "College Life") and Professor Muensterberg (in his excellent essay, "School Reform," and elsewhere) have written against allowing education to proceed "along the lines of least resistance...
...needs for that. Not Kant but the men who followed him--Stein, Hardenberg, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Fichte, and Hegel--have been official exponents, so to speak, of the mission of Prussia for a regenerated Germany. But it is nevertheless true that the spirit of the whole work of legislative reform which brought about the reconstruction of Prussia after the battle of Jena would not have been what it was but for the influence of Kant's thought. 'Thou canst, for thou shalt'--these words in which Kant epigramatically summed up his view of life were indeed the fundamental creed...