Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Louis Joseph Kopald, whose subject will be: "Should Reform Judaism be Reformed." Dr. Kopald, who was born in Kracow, Austria, in 1885 now occupies the pulpit of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, and is one of the main forces in the Student Congregation movement. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...blame the Russian people for going back on their allies is difficult to say. To pity them rather than curse them is the fairest way, for there is no sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them. All of which is their...
...University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association, and from 1912 to 1915, chairman of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League...
...wrong, while the continuous cry of the Humanist is that the Humanist is all wrong, while the continuous cry of the Humanist is that the Modernists are fools. Proceeding this way, nothing will be accomplished. It is time for humility to play its part. Let both sides admit that reform is needed and then get together to see what can be offered to solve the difficulty...
...factor to be considered is that now, when the war makes it imperative to reduce all expenses to the minimum, is the time to inaugurate a reform of this kind. The high cost of rowing has always been traceable to the Poughkeepsie regatta, with its late date and its long and costly period of preliminary training. A plan which limits intercollegiate rowing to the academic year, which makes it possible for the student body to see its crews in action for its most important races, and which cuts expenses in half, is certainly worth serious consideration by the stewards...