Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dealing with his subject, "Reform of Legal Procedure," Mr. Whipple will repeat substantially the address which he gave recently before the Connecticut Bar Association advocating sweeping changes in the method of conducting trials...
...course will deal with such topics as congestion of population, housing reform, public water supplies, sewage disposal, street cleaning, smoke prevention, the inspection of food and milk supplies, and various allied subjects. The course will be non-technical in character, being designed to afford an acquaintance with those things which every intelligent citizen ought to know...
When Sir Robert Peel tried to abolish the Tory Common Laws, Disraeli opposed him as leader of that party. In that capacity, he succeeded in attaining his goal,--the prime ministership. After the passage of the Reform Bill, his party went out of power. But the year 1874 again found him prime minister, this time as the one who should develop the Imperialist policy. Yet, in spite of his apparent vacillation, he was never suspected of outright unscrupulousness, gaining as a leader both power and respect, and adding many new territories to the English Empire...
...actions admits that the system is over-rigid. A large percentage of students find their original choice distasteful to them. If we can preserve the increased mental power which the present system requires and, at the same time, render it more elastic we shall have achieved a reform...
...Navy in President Roosevelt's first cabinet and during the period 1906-1909 was Attorney-General of the United States. He served as an Overseer of Harvard College from 1891 to 1903. Mr. Bonaparte has been president of the National Municipal League and of the Civil Service Reform League...