Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reputable class of citizens; while Bennett is an admitted nonentity, the candidate of the Brooklyn Republicans opposed to Fusion. Such is the situation as the polls open, with the betting over two to one in favor of Hylan. New York has never been able to keep a reform mayor in office for more than one term; its bursts of idealism are not of long life. But in this critical year, any victory of Tammany would be doubly disastrous, a menace to the public security and a knockout blow to good municipal government...
...with us. President Eliot still holds to those ideals which guided him through so many years. At an age when the minds of most men have sunk into the rut of conservatism, he is becoming more radical, more forward-looking, more eager to use his abilities in betterment and reform. His activity in public and educational service has constantly increased in recent years. He is a believer in the value of technical as opposed to classical training in the public high schools, and in physical instruction and the teaching of hygiene in all elementary and secondary schools. He has urged...
...faculty committee has been appointed to consider ways and means for bringing about the reform in the fraternities at New Haven. This problem has been brought to a head by the present charges against some of Sheffield Scientific School fraternities of improper campaigning for new members. Many prominent members of the faculty are on the committee of investigation. It includes Professors P. F. Smith, J. W. Roe, C. T. Bishop, C. F. Schreiber and Registrar Vreeland. A prize of $50 has been offered by the Aurelian Society for the best solution of the problem. It is expected that...
...undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
Universal military service is still a dream of the future. In the meantime, the crying need of America is reform in the army organization. Although we Federalize the militia and double the attendance at the summer military camps, the regular army must always remain our first line of defence. Yet our army today is pitifully small, disproportionately expensive, and inefficient. It numbers 74,000 men in the United States proper, it costs $1,000 per soldier, which is ten times the amount Switzerland expends, and the difficulty of its mobilization on the Mexican border last summer would have been ludicrous...